Urbanization: development policies and planning
- Title
- Urbanization: development policies and planning
- Name
- United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Published
- New York. 1968
- Physical Description
- 130 p. illus.
- Subjects
- Urbanization.
- Community development, Urban > Planning.
- Urban policy.
- Social policy.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Contents
- Introduction: An urbanization policy for economic and social development.--Demographic aspects of urban growth and population distribution: World urbanization trends, 1920-1960. Urbanization and economic and social change.--Social and economic problems and process of urbanization in developing countries: Urban growth and social development in Africa. Urban-rural populatin distribution and settlement patterns in Asia. Recent changes in urban and rural settlement patterns in Latin America. Population distribution, urban growth and planning in some Middle Eastern countries.--Policies and planning related to urban growth and population distribution: Economic aspects of urbanization. Urbanization and national development. Population movements and the distribution of social services. Urban policies and programmes (United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).--The problem of slums and shantytowns: Uncontrolled urban settlement, problems and policies.
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