Rapid urbanization in Asian developing countries has led to large urban agglomerations
called “megacities.” The Jakarta megacity keeps growing and has extended along a corridor …

The complex challenges of environmental governance depend in no small part on issues of
spatial scale, whether the problem being addressed is local environmental health burdens …

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities
and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries …

This imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction
to urbanization in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the …

The physical development of the Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA) and the Bandung
Metropolitan Area (BMA) is characterized by the formation of an urban belt from Jakarta to …

Las mega-ciudades y las periferias expandidas SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online vol.28
número85 Ciudad de México: el camino hacia una ciudad global Transformaciones …

" The joint WHO and UN-HABITAT report, Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health
inequities in urban settings, is being released at a turning point in human history. For the first …

The term peri-urbanization refers to a process in which rural areas located on the outskirts of
established cities become more urban in character, in physical, economic, and social terms …

The authors of this book present an overwhelming case that no country can isolate itself from
the impacts of the development process on its environmental resource base. To achieve …

This article examines the impacts of economic development on land conversion in the
Northern Region of West Java (NRWJ) and discusses their implications for urban and …