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Global Urbanization (The City in the Twenty-First Century) (1st Edition) by Eugenie Ladner Birch (Editor), Susan M. Wachter (Editor), Dr Eugenie L. Birch Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-10: 0-8122-4284-X / 081224284X ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4284-3 / 9780812242843 For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as |