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Urbanization: Its Effects on Government and Society (1927)
by John Giffin Thompson. 683 pgs.

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Preface

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Chapter I The Rural Bias

Chapter II The Urban Bent

Chapter III Urbanization and Civil Liberty

Chapter IV Urbanization and Economic Freedom

Chapter V Political Liberty, or Democracy, as a Concept and As An Ideal

Chapter VI Rural and Urban Contributions to Democracy in The Old World. Ancient and Mediaeval Times

Chapter VII Rural and Urban Contributions to Democracy in The Old World. Modern Europe

Chapter IX Rural and Urban Contributions to Democracy in The United States. General Survey (continued)

Chapter X Rural and Urban Contributions to Democracy in The United States: Special Features of the Struggle For Democracy

Chapter XI The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Knowl- Edge or Intelligence, and Upon Political Initiative Or Enterprise

Chapter XII The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Inventiveness: General Forms and Principles of Government

Chapter XIII The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Inventive- Ness (continued): Special Principles, and The Forms of Local Government

Chapter XIV The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Activity

Chapter XV The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Leadership

Chapter XVI The Effect of Urbanization Upon Public Spirit

Chapter XVII The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Purity

Chapter XVIII The Effect of Urbanization Upon the Efficiency Of Government

Chapter XIX The Effect of Urbanization Upon Economic Efficiency And Upon the Health, Physique, and Natural Growth Of the Population

Chapter XX The Moral Consequences of Urbanization

Chapter XXI The Religious Consequences of Urbanization

Chapter XXII The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Preparedness for War

Chapter XXIII The Effect of Urbanization Upon Political Prepared- Ness for War (continued): Urbanization And Political Stability

Chapter XXIV Urbanization and the Ponderables and The Imponderables in War: the Gun and the Man Behind the Gun

Chapter XXV General Summary and Conclusions

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The Urban Transformation of the Developing World
by Josef Gugler. 332 pgs.

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More than any other, this moment in history is one of urban transition. Almost half the world's population currently lives in urban settlements, and the last phase of this momentous transformation is now occurring in the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This edited volume presents regional studies of Third World urbanization, documents of unprecedented change in an ever-changing world. These records of historical, sociological, and demographic import will interest both professional planners and academics in the social sciences who are concerned with the many issues arising from urbanization. The studies in The Urban Transformation of the Developing World provide thorough investigations and telling comparisons of the major regions now experiencing rapid urbanization. Considerable attention is given throughout to the patterns of global transition, and to the social, political, and economic consequences in store for these regions.

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List of Figures

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1: Regional Trajectories in the Urban Transformation: Convergences and Divergences

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2: A History of the City in Monsoon Asia

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3: Urbanization in China: Reassessing an Evolving Model

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4: Urbanization in India: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues

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5: Urbanization in Indonesia: City and Countryside Linked

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6: Urbanization in the Arab World and the International System

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7: Urbanization in Africa South of the Sahara: New Identities in Conflict

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8: Urban Development and Social Inequality in Latin America

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Subject Index
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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective
by Richard Stren, Rodney White, Joseph Whitney. 365 pgs.

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Tables, Figures, and Maps

Section 1: Introduction

2. Cities and the Environment: an Overview

Notes

Section 2: Europe and Africa

Section 2: Europe and Africa

3. Western Europe

Notes

4 Eastern Europe

5: Africa

Section 3: North and South America

6. Canada

Notes

7. the United States

Notes

8. Latin America

Notes

Section 4: Asia

9 Southeast Asia

Notes 2

10: China and Hong Kong

11. Japan

Conclusion

Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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Third World Cities in Global Perspective: The Political Economy of Uneven Urbanization
by David A. Smith. 202 pgs.

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Tables and Figures

Preface

Introduction

1 Developing an International Political Economy Approach

2 Global Patterns: a Cross-National Analysis of Urbanization

3 The Logic of Comparative Historical-Structural Analysis

4 Dependency, Development, And Urbanization in West Africa

5 Nigerian Urbanization: A Semiperipheral Case?

6 Urban Diversity in East Asia: Toward A Political Economy Approach

7 South Korean Urbanization And Semiperipheral Development

8 Urbanization in Global Perspective: Summary, Synthesis, And Policy Recommendations

Notes

References

About the Book and Author

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Farewell to Peasant China: Rural Urbanization and Social Change in the Late Twentieth Century
by Gregory Eliyu Guldin. 292 pgs.

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Chinese urbanization, including the daily life, migration strategies, and life choices of villagers and townspeople, is the focus of this study by Chinese and North American scholars. From Tianjin in the north, to Tibet in the West, and to Guangdong and Fujian on the southeast coast, a tale is told of transforming countrysides, regional disparities, and the prospects of a fully urbanized China as the twenty-first century dawns. This first broad-scale anthropological investigation of Chinese urbanization captures both the dynamic essence of the urbanizations process and the remarkable vitality of post-reform Chinese society.

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Foreword: the End of Peasantry

References

Acknowledgments

Tables and Figures

Contributors

Part I Introduction

1: The Anthropology of Rural Urbanization in China

Part Ii Urbanizing China

2: On Rural Urbanization in China

3: Desakotas and Beyond: Urbanization in Southern China

References

Part III Regional Patterns

4: Rural Urbanization in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta

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5: One Model of Chinese Urbanization: The Urbanization Process in Xiamen City's Caitang Village

6: Rural Urbanization on the Liaodong Peninsula: A Village, A Town, and A Nongmin Cheng

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7: Rural Urbanization in China's Tibetan Region Duilongdeqing County as A Typical Example

Part Iv Social Dimensions of Rural Urbanization

8: An Investigative Report on the Migrant Population of Caitang Village, Xiamen Special Economic Zone

9: Investigative Analysis of "Migrant Odd-Job Workers" in Guangzhou

10: Rural Development and Social Security

Part V Conclusion

11: Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics

References Cited

Glossary

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Cities in World Perspective
by Ivan Light. 468 pgs.

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Preface

REFERENCES

Illustrated Slide Lectures

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PART ONE Preindustrial Cities

Chapter 1 Origins of City Life

NOTES

REFERENCES

Chapter 2 Basic Industries of Preindustrial Cities

NOTES

REFERENCES

Chapter 3 Reorganization of Europe, 1150-1750

NOTES

REFERENCES

PART TWO Industrial Urbanization

Chapter 4 Industrial Urbanization in Britain

NOTES

REFERENCES

Chapter 5 Urbanization of the United States

NOTES

REFERENCES

Chapter 6 Third World Urbanization

NOTES

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Chapter 7 Catch-Up Urbanization: Japan and the Soviet Union

NOTES

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PART THREE Urban Spatial Arrangement

Chapter 8 Urban Morphology of the United States

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Chapter 9 World Metropolitan Areas

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NOTES

Chapter 10 Human Ecology

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PART FOUR Communities

Chapter 11 Migration, Neighborhood, and Association

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Chapter 12 Ethnic Niches

NOTES

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PART FIVE Political Economy

Chapter 13 Labor Absorption

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Chapter 14 Marginality

NOTES

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Chapter 15 Housing

NOTES

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Chapter 16 Politics

NOTES

REFERENCES

Name Index

Subject Index
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The City as a Human Environment
by Duane G. Levine, Arthur C. Upton. 220 pgs.

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Responds to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use.

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Only One Earth Series

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

I Planning the Built Environment

1 Affordable Housing and The Urban Environment

2 Affordable by Design

3: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Approach

4 Affordable Housing

5 Energy Consumption And Architectural Design

6 A Public/Private Collaborative Process For Achieving Energy Efficiency In Buildings

Notes

Conclusions

Ii Improving Urban Transportation

7: Transportation and The Environment--Lessons From The Global Laboratory

8 The Auto, Land Use, And Transit

9: Urban Transportation: Progress and Priorities

10 The Role of Rail Transit In Contemporary Cities

11 Aashto Transportation 2020 Program

12 A Highway Designed To Be Part of The Human Environment

Iii Shaping Patterns of Urban Land Use

13: The New York Region Experiment

14 Constituting a Preservation Plan for Urban Areas

15 Making Cities Safe for Trees

16 Living on the Crust of The Earth: Human Ecology And Environmental Planning

17 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

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Sustainable Cities: Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective
by Richard Stren, Rodney White, Joseph Whitney. 376 pgs.

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Tables, Figures, and Maps

Section 1: Introduction

2. Cities and the Environment: an Overview

Notes

Section 2: Europe and Africa

Section 2: Europe and Africa

3. Western Europe

Notes

4 Eastern Europe

5: Africa

Section 3: North and South America

6. Canada

Notes

7. the United States

Notes

8. Latin America

Notes

Section 4: Asia

9 Southeast Asia

Notes 2

10: China and Hong Kong

11. Japan

Conclusion

Bibliography

Contributors

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Interdependent Urbanization in an Urban World: An Historical Overview, in The Geographical Journal
by David Clark. 11 pgs.

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Urbanization in History: A Process of Dynamic Interactions
by Ad van der Woude, Akira Hayami, Jan de Vries. 376 pgs.

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These papers represent a series of important contributions on the history of urbanization. As well as offering a clear and instructive discussion of fundamental concepts, processes, and measurement problems, the introduction summarizes findings in the latest research and proposes new topics. The papers focus on four principal areas of contemporary research on urbanization: urban networks, town-country economic links, migration, and demographic patterns. New areas of analysis, such as the study of migration flows by age, gender, or social group, and the comparative east/west approach of several of these papers will serve to broaden the international scope of research and stimulate further work in this field.

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

1: Introduction The Hierarchies, Provisioning, and Demographic Patterns of Cities

2: Types of City-Size Distributions A Comparative Analysis

5: Conclusion

3: Problems in the Measurement, Description, and Analysis of Historical Urbanization

4: East Asian Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century Comparisons with Europe

6: Conclusions

5: Patterns of Settlement and Political Changes The French Revolution and the National Urban Hierarchy

6: The German Urban Network between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries Cultural and Demographic Indicators

7: Brake or Accelerator? Urban Growth and Population Growth before the Industrial Revolution

8: Agricultural Productivity, Trade, and Urban Growth during the Phase of Commercialization of the Swedish Economy, 1810-1870

9: The Impact of Crop Yields, Agricultural Productivity, and Transport Costs on Urban Growth between 1800 and 1910

10: Migration into and out of the Danish City of Odense

11: Mobility and Migration in Pre-industrial Urban Areas The Case of Nineteenth-Century Cuenca

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12: Migration, Wages, and Urbanization in Sweden in the Nineteenth Century

13: The Changing Structure of Urban Employment and its Effects on Migration Patterns in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Japan

14: Migration, Family Formation, and Choice of Marriage Partners in Stockholm, 1860-1890

15: Aspects of Fertility Decline in an Urban Setting: Rouen and Geneva

5: Conclusion

16: Innovators and Imitators in the Practice of Contraception in Town and Country

17: Urbanization and Demographic Behaviour in Spain, 1860-1930

3: Conclusion

18: Economic and Demographic Implications of Working-Class Housing in Early Victorian Leeds

Appendix

19: Demographic Aspects of Urbanization in the Lower Yangzi Region of China, c. 1500- 1900

4: Conclusion

20: The City Agent or Product of Urbanization

4: Conclusion

Index
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Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930
by Ronn Pineo, James A. Baer. 292 pgs.

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This groundbreaking book explores the relationship between the impact of urbanization on the working class in Latin American cities & the variety of responses by that group in the years between 1870 & 1930. Unlike urban geographies or political histories, the chapters of this collaborative volume focus on the people of these cities, especially the working women & men who were faced with the ramifications of the transformations taking place around them. The case studies demonstrate how studying the patterns of working class' response provides the key to understanding the political process of the urban social reform.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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1 Political Impulses: Popular Participation In Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia

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2 Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, And the Reorganization Of Public Space In Montevideo, Uruguay

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3 Mexico City: Popular Classes And Revolutionary Politics

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4 Viva La Revolución Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in Veracruz, Mexico

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5 Buenos Aires: Housing Reform And The Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina

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6 Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing In Lima, Peru

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8 The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

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9 The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development

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10 Urbanization, The Working Class, and Reform

Notes

About the Editors And Contributors

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Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities
by Gerald Michael Greenfield. 540 pgs.

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This volume provides extensive information on the urban experience in Latin America. Following a general overview, the work includes chapters devoted to urbanization in specific countries. Each chapter begins with an introduction providing geographic information and a survey of the nation's urban development, and then includes historical profiles of ninety selected cities, as well as maps. Thus, the work provides both national and city-specific perspectives. Chapters also provide a list of bibliographic resources, and the work is fully indexed.

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Illustrations

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1: ARGENTINA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

2: BOLIVIA

REFERENCES

NOTES

3: BRAZIL

INTRODUCTION

NOTE

REFERENCES

4: CHILE

INTRODUCTION

NOTES

REFERENCES

5: COLOMBIA

INTRODUCTION

REFERENCES

NOTE

6: COSTA RICA

INTRODUCTION

NOTE

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

7: CUBA

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8: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

INTRODUCTION

NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

9: ECUADOR

INTRODUCTION

REFERENCES

10: EL SALVADOR

INTRODUCTION

NOTES

REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION

11: GUATEMALA

NOTES

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12: HAITI

INTRODUCTION

NOTE

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13: HONDURAS

INTRODUCTION

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14: JAMAICA

INTRODUCTION

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15: MEXICO

INTRODUCTION

REFERENCES

16: NICARAGUA

INTRODUCTION

REFERENCES

17: PANAMA

INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTE

INTRODUCTION

18: PARAGUAY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

19: PERU

NOTE

REFERENCES

20: URUGUAY

INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

21: VENEZUELA

NOTE

REFERENCES

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
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Migration and Urbanization in China
by Lincoln H. Day, Ma Xia. 253 pgs.

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Figures and Tables

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Survey: Objectives and Organization

Chapter 2: An Overview of the Pattern of Internal Migration and Reasons for Migrating

Chapter 3: Permanent and Temporary Migration Differentials

Chapter 4: Inter-Regional Migration to Cities and Towns

Chapter 5: Demographic Characteristics of the Migrants

Chapter 6: Family Characteristics of the Migrants

Chapter 7: The Economic Adjustment of Migrants in Urban Areas

Chapter 8: Migration and Fertility

Chapter 9: Changes in the Pattern of Migration in Urban China

Chapter 10: Urbanization, Migration and Development: China and Southeast Asia Compared

References

Index

The Contributors
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The Politics of Rapid Urbanization: Government and Growth in Modern Turkey
by Michael N. Danielson, Rusen Keles. 277 pgs.

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The Politics of Rapid Urbanization: Government and Growth in Modern Turkey

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List of Figures

List of Tables

Glossary of Turkish Terms

Acknowledgments

1: Government and Urban Development

2: Rapid Urbanization

3: The Metropolitan Centers

4: Cities and Centralized Government

5: Political Interests and Urban Development

6: Providing Urban Services

7: Government and Housing

8: Shaping Urban Development

9: Government and the Metropolis

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Urbanization in Socialist Countries
by Jiri Musil. 185 pgs.

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Foreword

Introduction

1: Czechoslovakia

2: The Soviet Union

3: Poland

4: The German Democratic Republic

5: Hungary

6: Romom and Bulgaria

7: Yugoslavia

8: Conclusions on Settlement Strategies

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

About the Author

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