Tag: Urbanization

Free Download Settlement, urbanization, and population By Bowman, Alan K.;Wilson, Andrew
2018 | 362 Pages | ISBN: 0198788517 | PDF | 5 MB
Estimating ancient Greek populations : the evidence of field survey / Simon Price — Missing persons? : models of Mediterranean regional survey and ancient populations / Robert Witcher — Calculating plough-zone demographics : some insights from arid-zone surveys / David Mattingly — Rural settlement and population extrapolation : a case study from the Ager of Antium, Central Italy (350 BC-AD 400) / Peter Attema and Tymon de Haas — Cities and economic development in the Roman Empire / Neville Morley — City sizes and urbanization in the Roman Empire / Andrew Wilson — Rank-size analysis and the Roman cities of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain : some considerations / Annalisa Marzano — The urban system of Roman Asia Minor and wider urban connectivity / J.W. Hanson — Towns and territories in Roman Baetica / Simon Keay and Graeme Earl — Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt : population and settlement / Alan Bowman.

Free Download Water-Related Urbanization and Locality: Protecting, Planning and Designing Urban Water Environments in a Sustainable Way by Fang Wang
English | EPUB | 2020 | 377 Pages | ISBN : 981153506X | 262.4 MB
This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments. Against the backdrop of environmental changes, it addresses issues of water resource protection and sustainable development in China and Germany at different stages of urbanization, as well as relevant strategies and lessons learned.

Free Download Xiaobing Li, "Urbanization and Party Survival in China: People vs. Power"
English | ISBN: 1498541992 | 2016 | 346 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing, lack of social services, corruption, and abuse of power have often reached crisis stage. American college students often ask: How does the government control the largest urban population in the world? Why do newly developed, highly commercialized cities continue to support the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rather than challenging the old regime? What happens when urban residents have problems with a party-controlled government?

Free Download Asian Cities Globalization, Urbanization and Nation-Building By Malcolm McKinnon
2011 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 8776940799 | PDF | 17 MB
Questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization. Explores middle cities ‘off the radar’ as well as well-known metropolises. Uses both quantitative and ethnographic research. Asian Cities challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh and stimulating look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces – urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization. The latter two are not dependent variables of globalization, although all, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, are shaped by capitalism.The book reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centres to examine urban life in a sample of middle-sized cities representative of hundreds of such urban centres throughout the Asian continent. An introductory chapter outlines the arguments and introduces the sample cities. Chapters two and three explore two principal facets of urbanization: the material transformation that comes in its train and the impact that it has on the lives of the newly-urbanized. Chapters four to seven explore the way that the national framework shapes cities – including business enterprises, migrantion, travel and commercial popular culture. In a final chapter the book surveys likely trends in Asian cities over the next quarter century and considers the implications of the study for our understanding of globalization generally.This is a nuanced study grounded in quantitatively-based findings but enriched by qualitative research that both provides additional evidence and brings the findings alive.Malcolm McKinnon is an independent New Zealand historian who, besides researching urban development in Asia, has written extensively on New Zealand’s relations with Asia.Malcolm McKinnon is an independent New Zealand historian who, besides researching urban development in Asia, has written extensively on New Zealand’s relations with Asia.

Free Download Economic Foundations for Sustainable Urbanization: A Study on Three-Pringed Approach By Marco Kamiya, Serge Salat, Louis Bourdic
2017 | 132 Pages | ISBN: 9264194517 | PDF | 20 MB
Sustainable urbanization requires integrated planning, as it allows cities to come up with a common vision for their development. Lack of integrated action often leads to sub-optimal results and undermines a city’s economy and quality of life. As a result, UN-Habitat promotes the Three Pronged-Approach to achieve sustainable urban development, which is founded on a policy triangle comprised of good governance, urban design and municipal finance. This publication was used to discuss the New Urban Agenda (NUA), the UN-wide policy on urbanization that takes place every two decades.Through this publication, UN-Habitat along with ‘Urban Morphology Institute, Paris’, attempt to show the importance of obtaining parallel results in all the three prongs of urban planning. This publication also sets the basis to select a set of metrics and indicators to measure the components of the Three Pronged-Approach and illustrates how these indicators affect urban productivity. This an amended and expanded second edition (March 2017).

Free Download Yap Kioe Sheng, Moe Thuzar, "Urbanization in Southeast Asia: Issues and Impacts"
English | 2012 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 9814380024 | PDF | 8,8 mb
Urbanization occurs in tandem with development. Countries in Southeast Asia need to build – individually and collectively – the capacity of their cities and towns to promote economic growth and development, to make urban development more sustainable, to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and to ensure that all groups in society share in the development. This book is a result of a series of regional discussions by experts and practitioners involved in the urban and planning of their countries. It highlights urbanization issues that have implications for regional – including ASEAN – cooperation, and provides practical recommendations for policymakers. It is a first step towards assisting governments in the region to take advantage of existing collaborative partnerships to address the urban transformation that Southeast Asia is experiencing today.

Free Download European Urbanization, 1500-1800 By J De Vries
2006 | 418 Pages | ISBN: 0415417686 | PDF | 8 MB
In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic and geographic models, Professor de Vries illustrates the patterns of urban growth, draws conclusions about the significance of migratory behaviour and shows the effects of urbanization on the history of Europe as a whole.Presenting these broad measures in urbanization the book makes the case that the cities of Europe gradually came to form a single urban system. The properties of this system are analysed with the use of several different geographical concepts: rank-size distribution, transition matrices and potential surfaces, among others. This examination of the fortunes of cities of different sizes and regions and the economic and political factors that affected their development is fundamentally important for understanding modern Europe and contemporary problems of urban development. Jan de Vries mines these rich, complex data to give us a balanced view of the dynamics of change in urban, pre-industrial society.This book was first published in 1984.