Download PDF file of "Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa" 239kb The GDP of many SSA countries is concentrated, and even reliant, on the productivity of its urban centers. It is rare to transition from ...

World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results highlights the key findings of the 2025 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, offering an overview of global urban transformation. It ...

Demographic trends intertwine with economic, social, and political ones to create a dynamic context for the functioning of cities, towns, and metropolitan areas. Demographic trends are diverse among ...

Health and infectious diseases have shaped the history of urbanization, but it is cities that will define the future of global health. Four boys look ahead as one flies a kite over houses in the ...

June 2012, No. 1 & 2 Vol. XLIX, The Future We Want? Over the last two decades, demographic and economic changes have propelled cities and urban centres to become the principal habitat of humankind.

Certain cities or parts of a city are lost in the layers of history and fade away from public memory. However, many of such long-forgotten urban conditions are important because within them they are a ...

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter one: Development of an urban photographic style, 1839-1870 -- Chapter two: Anchoring the city: Photographers and their studios -- Chapter three: Grand-style urban ...

When one thinks of public spaces, the image of a pool rarely comes to mind. Public spaces are the center of civic life, places where most interactions, activities, and behaviors follow strict social ...