Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2.5 billion people over today’s total. Nearly all of this urban growth will occur in developing...
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2020/11/13
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2020/11/13
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Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities
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urban growth boundary
Citation
Mehrotra,Shagun; Bonansea,Bruno.
Greater Than Parts : A Metropolitan Opportunity (Vol. 3 of 12) : Metropolitan Atlas : Spatial Analytics for Developing Cities (English). Greater Than Parts Series Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/246201605296114652