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During the last decades the uncontrolled flow of migrants to cities led to the proliferation of large metropolitan areas in the tropics. By the year 2000, the number of cities with more than one million inhabitants will increase threefold from the 52 that existed in 1982. Even in Africa, the least urbanized region in the developing world, the rate of population increase is the highest. By the end of the 1990s more than 340 million (42% of the total population) will be living in cities (U.N. Centre for Human Settlements 1987).
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Jauregui, E. (1997). Climates of Tropical and Subtropical Cities. In: Yoshino, M., Domrös, M., Douguédroit, A., Paszyński, J., Nkemdirim, L.C. (eds) Climates and Societies — A Climatological Perspective. The GeoJournal Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1055-8_17
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