Urbanization and Development : Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)

From the contents: Introduction; 1: Jo Beall, Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, and Ravi Kanbur: Beyond the Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and Development; Data and Definitions; 2: David E. Bloom, David Canning, Gunther Fink, Tarun Khanna, and Patrick Salyer: Urban Settlement: Data, Measures, and Trends; 3: Hirotsugu Uchida and Andrew Nelson: Agglomeration Index: Towards A New Measure of Urban Concentration; 4: Janice E. Perlman: Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle: A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas, 1968 - 2008; 5: David Satterthwaite: Urban Myths and the Mis-use of Data that Underpin Them; Economic Benefits of Urbanization; 6: Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables: Evolving City Systems; 7: Wim Naude: Suburbanization and Residential Desegregation in South Africa's Cities; Urbanization: Social Consequences; 8: Ben C. Arimah: The Face of Urban Poverty: Explaining the Prevalence of Slums in Developing Countries; 9: Ignacio A. Navarro and Geoffrey K. Turnbull: The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment; 10: Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton: The Gendered Nature of Asset Accumulation in Urban Contexts: Longitudinal Results from Guayaquil, Ecuador; Urban Violence; 11: Nasser Yassin: Violent Urbanization and Homogenization of Space and Place: Reconstructing the Story of Sectarian Violence in Beirut; 12: Deborah Fahy Bryceson: Dar es Salaam as a 'Harbour of Peace' in East Africa: Tracing the Role of Creolized Urban Ethnicity in Nation-State Formation; 13: Dennis Rodgers: Urban Violence Is (not) Necessarily a Way Of life: Towards a Political Economy of Conflict in Cities; Urban Planning and Governance; 14: Somik V. Lall, Hyoung Gun Wang, and Uwe Deichmann: Infrastructure and City Competitiveness in India; 15: Martin Medina: Solid Wastes, Poverty and the Environment in Developing Country Cities: Challenges and Opportunities