Through a set of case studies, this study attempts to examine the interplay of many factors--domestic policies as well as exogenous events such as changes in the price of oil and severe fluctuations in rainfall. the remained of this chapter looks at population growth, environmental stress, and...
1983-01-19 Cities of the World catches the changing mood of geography in the 1980s in an exciting way. The authors use a wide-angle lens to sweep across the emerging world urban patterns, surveying from continent to continent. It is a study in comparative world urban development. The great interest today in...