Cities and the environment : new approaches for eco-societies / edited by Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, and Glen Paoletto

"Cities focus human creativity, culture, and industry, and offer welfare and livelihood opportunities for billions of people worldwide. If demographic projections are borne out, cities will also be a focus of a global population explosion – particularly in developing countries – that will increasingly reflect common lifestyle experiences for humankind."--Publisher's description.

xxiii, 337 p. : graphs, map, tables

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