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An increasing proportion of the rapidly growing world population is attempting to satisfy its economic and social needs and desires in an urban context. The enormous migration of people into cities and towns has produced a very distinct possibility of an uncontrollable urban explosion — an unprecedented increase in population, greater demands on the urban infrastructure, higher rates of pollution and a decrease in the non-material (and in some cases material) standard of life.
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© 1995 Paul N. Balchin, Gregory H. Bull and Jeffrey L. Kieve
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Balchin, P.N., Bull, G.H., Kieve, J.L. (1995). Introduction. In: Urban Land Economics and Public Policy. Building and Surveying Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13652-0_1
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