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Chapter 15 Urbanisation
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The site of the University of Canberra’s
Centre for Developing Cities: on-line version of an OECD paper on
financing world urbanisation; Ch 1 presents an overview of the problems,
with text and graphs; Ch 3 presents urban development objectives;
other chapters deal with financial aspects. Many useful links.
http://cities.canberra.edu.au/publications/OECDpaper/World_urbanisation.htm |
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Mexico
City’s water supply:
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On-line
version of an eight-chapter book on “Improving the outlook for
sustainability”. Offers a detailed case study of the history
and problems of infrastructure provision in a rapidly expanding capital
city.
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/mexico/water/book.html |
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Los Angeles:
Northridge earthquake page:
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Information on the January 1994 earthquake at Northridge, 20 miles
WNW of Los Angeles. Contains maps, photos of damage, a movie and pages
relating the earthquake to the wider picture of seismicity in the
Los Angeles basin and earthquakes in S California.
http://www.scecdc.scec.org/northreq.html |
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Los Angeles:
Northridge: USGS response to an urban earthquake:
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Comprehensive
and excellent: detailed accounts of the Northridge earthquake, downloadable
(pdf files).
http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/northridge/ |
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US Census
Bureau:
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Huge
US Bureau of the Census site, with definitions of poverty and surveys
of poverty in the US; abundant maps and statistics at all spatial
scales.
www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html
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The urban
geography of Leeds:
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Good
site on the urban development of Leeds: excellent text and photos,
but why no maps?! From the Dept of Geography and Geology, Northamptonshire
Grammar School.
http://www.brixworth.demon.co.uk/leeds/
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