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Product Description: Urban growth in Africa is higher than anywhere, but, unlike earlier urbanization trends in the industrialized world, it is not being accompanied by economic growth. The result is a continent that boasts high levels of poverty, inequality, and the highest proportion of urban slum dwellers anywhere...read more
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9783643801067 | Lit Verlag, September 8, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Urban growth in Africa is higher than anywhere, but, unlike earlier urbanization trends in the industrialized world, it is not being accompanied by economic growth.
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9780199590148 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 3, 2010, cover price $115.00
Product Description: International development is replete with examples of failure. This has led to notes of cynicism being struck in commentaries on development, whether in relation to failed states, donor ineptitude or the unaccountability of NGOs. Precisely because the grand visions have not been realized and macro-level policies have been so controversial, attention turned to initiatives at the local level...read more
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9781853395970 | Practical Action Pub, May 30, 2005, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: International development is replete with examples of failure.
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9781853839931 | Routledge, October 28, 2004, cover price $52.95
Product Description: Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world's poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied relationship between urban governance and urban poverty...read more
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9781853839924 | Routledge, October 28, 2004, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South.
Product Description: For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781853839214 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future.
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9781853839160 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future.
Product Description: By the turn of the century more than half the world's population will live in urban areas. This rapid pace of urbanization is forcing a rethinking of development priorities, and this book explores some of those initiatives. The book opens with an introduction to the issues of urban development, taking a human development perspective as its central theme...read more
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9781856494779 | Zed Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $90.00
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9781856494786 | Zed Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: By the turn of the century more than half the world's population will live in urban areas.
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