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Chapter 1c - Population distribution and economic development at the national scale
Population distribution at the national scale is influenced by the same physical factors as at the global scale. Cities and regions with natural physical and human advantages grow fast in population and...
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Chapter 1b - Global Patterns of Economic Development
There are many terms used to refer to a country's or region's level of development. Some have become obsolete and their use can be misrepresentative. The best-known economic development measure is the...
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Smart Cities
This is a revision page on smart cities. It includes global trends in the growth of smart cities as well as examples of purpose-built and retrofitted urban designs, illustrating Songdo in South Korea...
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Ecocity Design and Environmental Strategies
This is a revision page on eco-city design as well as ecological footprint. It develops a number of eco-city design from an urban planning perspective and then looks in more detail how environmental management...
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Resilient Cities
This is a revision page on resilient cities. It develops the importance of cities and their major threats and develops two case studies. Surat, India and Santiago, Chile. It develops ideas around tipping...
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Urban Growth
This is a revision page on urban growth projections. It looks at the speed of growth for cities in different regions as well as changes in demographics over time. It looks at how migration to cities creates...
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Managing Urban Social Deprivation and Crime
Revision page on efforts and policies to manage urban social deprivation. It deals first with deindustrialisation and inter-generation unemployment. It uses a range of examples to illustrate the problems...
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Contested Land-use Changes
This is a revision page covering contested land-use changes. It first looks back at how road infrastructure has been used as an urban planning strategy that benefits some groups more than others. It then...
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Managing Traffic Congestion - Vitoria-Gasteiz
This is a revision page on ways to manage traffic congestion and it develops the case study of Vitoria Gasteiz in Northern Spain. This award city has pioneered ways to introduce traffic reduction solutions...
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Air Pollution in New Delhi
This revision page develops a case study on New Delhi to show the causes of air pollution and its impacts on people. It provides an in-depth look at the complex causes of pollution in a fast-growing city....