Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. This edition focuses specifically on urban environmental issues, social and economic injustice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban models, and daily life.
State of the World's Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity beyond the solely economic emphasis, including other vital dimensions such as quality of life, adequate infrastructures, equity and environmental sustainability. The Report proposes a new tool - the City Prosperity Index - together with a conceptual matrix, the Wheel of Prosperity, both of which are meant to assist decision makers to design clear policy interventions.
A comprehensive gazetteer or encyclopedia of over 170,000 geographical places in the world and features, including names, descriptions, and characteristics.
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Reference work offers country and regional economic and political information.
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Relief shown by gradient tints and depths shown by bathymetric tints
At head of tltle: Na︠t︡sionalʹna akademi︠ia︡ nauk Ukraïny
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This atlas is the fruition of the late Polish linguist Jan JanÓw's work. Janusz Rieger began work on JanÓw's expedition material in the late 1970s and since then has succeeded in transferring the information from disparate field notes and other archival sources onto a series of more than 250 maps, with separate linguistic commentary and indices. This atlas provides a fundamental resource for Slavic dialectologists.