The rise of megacities : challenges, opportunities and unique characteristics /
Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.
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London ; Hackensack :
World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd,
c2018
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Mục lục:
- The complexity of and challenges in the emergence of megacities
- The rise of megacities : an empirical overview of the demographic changes in the world economy and an introduction to an integral theory of megacities / Jerzy Kleer and Katarzyna A. Nawrot
- Megacities : devastation of the public sphere / Jerzy Kleer
- From metropolis to megacity / Piotr Korcelli and Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak
- Governance of megacities : selected aspects of international experience / Tadeusz Markowski
- Development patterns of megacities and their future / Zygmunt Ziobrowski
- Threats and challenges posed by the rise of megacities / Konrad Prandecki, Wojciech Kazanecki and Sylwia Smietanko
- Megacities and threats to human health / Agata Penconek
- The impact of megacities on human nature / Maria Szyszkowska
- Opportunities in the development of megacities : regional, national and multidisciplinary perspectives
- Rural-urban migration, urbanization and megacities in China / Feng Wengmeng
- Megacities in India : where are the opportunities? / Gaurang Rami And Yogesh N. Vansiya
- African megacities as emerging innovation ecosystems / Katarzyna A. Nawrot, Calestous Juma and James Donald
- A smart future for energy in megacities / Jessen Page
- What future lies ahead for megacities in Europe? / Jerzy Kleer and Katarzyna A. Nawrot
- Case studies of selected megacities
- Tokyo and Delhi : a comparative analysis of Asian megacities / Katarzyna A. Nawrot
- Shanghai : the first megalopolis on the globe? / Bogdan Góralczyk
- Mexico City : an antithesis of sustainable development? / Urszula Zulawska and Elzbieta Zulawska-Sobczyk
- Dhaka : the perils and promises of an Asian megacity / Adnan Morshed
- Lagos : directions of development of Nigerian metropolis in the first decades of the 21st century / Malwina Bakalarska
- New York : a city of progress / Bohdan Szklarski and Piotr Szyja
- Epilogue
- In lieu of a conclusion: megacities : boon or bane? / Jerzy Kleer and Katarzyna A. Nawrot.