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1. Cities and Development

   By Jo Beall, Sean Fox

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   By 2030 more than sixty percent of the world's population will live in urban areas, with most of the world’s population growth over the next twenty-five years being absorbed by cities and towns in low and middle income countries. What are the consequences of this shift?...

   Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
2. Uniting a Divided City

   Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg

   By Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell

   For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm...

   Published June 30th 2002 by Routledge