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The drama of country and city: tribalization, urbanization and theatre under apartheid
Journal of Southern African Studies, 1997In an ironic reversal of the classic modern paradigm where the city represents progress and the agency of citizens against the ‘idiocy of rural life’, the Africanized city, especially Johannesburg, came in the apartheid period to signify barbarism for white South Africans, the very group that saw itself as the vanguard of modernity in Africa.
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Mega-Cities, Urbanization, And Public Transport: A Perspective On Developing Countries
2009Abstract To a great extent, economic growth in recent years has been supported by a process of urbanization. People move from rural to urban areas in pursuit of higher wages and new employment opportunities, hoping to improve their financial situation. But this does not always mean an improvement in their living conditions since in large
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2019
Urbanization is now an irreversible phenomenon, with more and more people living in peri-urban areas, where agriculture is still present. In developed (North) and developing (South) countries, urbanization has been fuelled by rural-urban migration, expectations of better employment opportunities, higher quality of life and better incomes. New functions
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Urbanization is now an irreversible phenomenon, with more and more people living in peri-urban areas, where agriculture is still present. In developed (North) and developing (South) countries, urbanization has been fuelled by rural-urban migration, expectations of better employment opportunities, higher quality of life and better incomes. New functions
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Urbanization in a developing country: city size and population composition.
Journal of development economics, 1987Reasons for the high correlation between city size and educational attainment in developing countries are explored. "Two explanations are examined. First, the types of goods produced in larger cities require relatively high skill labor inputs. Second, public and perhaps private services demanded by higher skill people are only offered in larger ...
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The City in Newly Developing Countries: Readings on Urbanism and Urbanization.
American Sociological Review, 1970George C. Myers, Gerald Breese
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The City in Newly Developing Countries. Readings on Urbanism and Urbanization
Population (French Edition), 1971A. A., Gerald Breese
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Global Environment, 2012
Abstract This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
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Abstract This article explores the connection between the significant health improvements made in the developing world, particularly after World War II, and the goal of providing clean water and sanitation services to large urban centers in these countries.
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The City in Newly Developing Countries: Readings on Urbanism and Urbanization
The British Journal of Sociology, 1969Bryan Roberts, Gerald Breese
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The Country And The City King Curtis And The Structure Of Black Urbanity
1998Abstract Let us turn to another site in the West, some seventy years after Wilde’s visit to Colorado. The time is September 1958; the place, a recording studio in Clovis, New Mexico. There is a cowboy and there is a dandy. One is Buddy Holly, singing a tune called “Reminiscing”; the other is “King” Curtis Ousley, tenor saxophonist ...
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City and Country: Rural Response to Urbanization in the 1920s
The Journal of American History, 1970Frederick C. Luebke, Don S. Kirschner
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