growth over the past two decades, accompanied by the development of large-scale industries and services. In the course of this expansion, medium-sized cities and small towns have sprung up around the larger cities, forming city clusters, often with similar or interdependent economies. The development of city clusters in China is somewhat similar to the formation of the megalopolis in the United...

While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many rural-urban end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented detail Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why move seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of individuals from this region and information on possible destinations census, study documents, through dyadic regressions controlling for...

Over the next thirty years, the world’s population is expected to grow by nearly one-third, but this growth will be highly concentrated in the urban areas of poor, developing countries (United Nations, 2002). Of the anticipated 2 billion persons to be added to the world’s total by the year 2030, fully 1.9 billion are expected to reside in the cities and towns of Africa, Asia, and Latin America ...

Fig. 1. Berkeley neighborhood imagery, (a) 1901 Berkeley subdivision map, (b) U.C. Berkeley recognized zone and (c) 2008 Berkeley neighborhood map. The human brain has a limited capacity to store and process large quantities of information. To handle overwhelming complexities of details the mind will often breakdown large chunks of data into manageable blocks for processing [1]. A prominent top...

Since the late 1970s internal migration has become a fundamental feature of economicand social change in the People’s Republic of China. So has rapid urbanization as therural population moves to the cities and towns in search for work. In the process, newurban spaces have been created that not only provide the springboard for economicdevelopment but also present challenges for s...

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Municipalities in developing countries spend the highest proportion of their annual budget on unsatisfactory solid waste management service. Until recently, solid waste management services in Ethiopia were mainly the responsibilities of municipalities, which culminated in inadequate service provision. Thus, the integration of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) by the government has recently bei...

Municipalities in developing countries spend the highest proportion of their annual budget on unsatisfactory solid waste management service. Until recently, solid waste management services in Ethiopia were mainly the responsibilities of municipalities, which culminated in inadequate service provision. Thus, the integration of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) by the government has recently bei...