World urbanization – new visions

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object , Other literature type 29 Aug 2008 Croatia Publisher:WIT PressJournal:WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, volume I, pages 399-409 (issn: 1746-448X, eissn: 1743-3541,

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Authors: Kincl, Branko; Delić, Alenka;

doi: 10.2495/sc080381

World urbanization – new visions

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Abstract

according to 2005 United Nation Revision, the world continues to urbanize quickly. Between 2005 and 2030, the worlds population is expected to increase by 1.7 billion people, from 6.5 billion in 2005 to 8.2 billion in 2030. virtually all this increase is expected to be concentrated in urban areas. In 1950 there was just two mega-cities, New York and Tokyo, but their number has reached 20 by 2005 and is expected to rise to 22 by 2015, of whitch 17 will be located in developing countries.

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Croatia

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University of Zagreb
Croatia

Keywords

sustainble development, ICT, megacities, urbanization, urbanizacija; mega gradovi; održivi razvoj; ICT

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