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245	0	0	_aManaging urban futures _bsustainability and urban growth in developing countries
260			_aAldershot _bAshgate _c2005
300			_axv, 277p _c24cm.
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505	2		_aThe challenges of urban development processes -- New scales in space and time -- Transforming state, space and society: political reform, promoting citizens rights and poverty alleviation -- Coming together.
520			_aExplores the conflicting challenges of rapid urbanization in developing countries. Compares the challenges in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific and puts forward a new way of thinking about medga and million-cities in developing countries. Promotes their viral function in society as engines of ideas, technologies, societal change, democratic transformation and loci of political will to build a new regime of global sustainability.
651		4	_aInternational
690			_aENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND CONSULTANCY-SUSTAINABILITY-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
700	1		_aKeiner, Marco _eEditor
700	1		_aKoll-Schretzenmayr, Martina _eEditor
700	1		_aSchmid, Willy A. _eEditor
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