Urbanization as Opportunity

Urbanization deserves urgent attention from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social reformers of all stripes. Nothing else will create as many opportunities for social and economic progress. The urbanization project began roughly 1,000...

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Main Authors:	Fuller, Brandon, Romer, Paul
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING CITIES CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROGRESS FERTILITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GENERATIONS FUTURE GROWTH GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL POPULATION GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT CAPACITY LAND OWNERS LAND USES LIFE EXPECTANCY LOCAL CAPACITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RATE OF GROWTH RULE OF LAW SHORT SUPPLY SLUMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPECIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOTAL POPULATION URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN GROWTH URBAN PLANNING URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN RESEARCH URBAN RESIDENTS URBANIZATION WORLD POPULATION WORLD POPULATION PROJECTIONS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19540024/urbanization-opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18743

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spelling	okr-10986-187432021-04-23T14:03:49Z Urbanization as Opportunity Fuller, Brandon Romer, Paul ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING CITIES CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROGRESS FERTILITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GENERATIONS FUTURE GROWTH GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL POPULATION GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT CAPACITY LAND OWNERS LAND USES LIFE EXPECTANCY LOCAL CAPACITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RATE OF GROWTH RULE OF LAW SHORT SUPPLY SLUMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPECIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOTAL POPULATION URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN GROWTH URBAN PLANNING URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN RESEARCH URBAN RESIDENTS URBANIZATION WORLD POPULATION WORLD POPULATION PROJECTIONS Urbanization deserves urgent attention from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social reformers of all stripes. Nothing else will create as many opportunities for social and economic progress. The urbanization project began roughly 1,000 years after the transition from the Pleistocene to the milder and more stable Holocene interglacial. In 2010, the urban population in developing countries stood at 2.5 billion. The developing world can accommodate the urban population growth and declining urban density in many ways. The most important citywide projects -- successes like New York and Shenzhen -- show even more clearly how influential human intention can be. The developing world can accommodate the urban population growth and declining urban density in many ways. One is to have a threefold increase in the average population of its existing cities and a six fold increase in their average built-out area. Another, which will leave the built-out area of existing cities unchanged, will be to develop 625 new cities of 10 million people -- 500 new cities to accommodate the net increase in the urban population and another 125 to accommodate the 1.25 billion people who will have to leave existing cities as average density falls by half. 2014-06-25T19:08:18Z 2014-06-25T19:08:18Z 2014-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19540024/urbanization-opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18743 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6874 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific
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topic	ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING CITIES CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROGRESS FERTILITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GENERATIONS FUTURE GROWTH GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL POPULATION GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT CAPACITY LAND OWNERS LAND USES LIFE EXPECTANCY LOCAL CAPACITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RATE OF GROWTH RULE OF LAW SHORT SUPPLY SLUMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPECIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOTAL POPULATION URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN GROWTH URBAN PLANNING URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN RESEARCH URBAN RESIDENTS URBANIZATION WORLD POPULATION WORLD POPULATION PROJECTIONS
spellingShingle	ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY CAPACITY BUILDING CITIES CLIMATE CHANGE DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC PROGRESS FERTILITY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FUTURE GENERATIONS FUTURE GROWTH GDP PER CAPITA GLOBAL POPULATION GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNMENT CAPACITY LAND OWNERS LAND USES LIFE EXPECTANCY LOCAL CAPACITY MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER RATE OF GROWTH RULE OF LAW SHORT SUPPLY SLUMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL STRUCTURE SPECIES SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS TOTAL POPULATION URBAN URBAN AREA URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN EXPANSION URBAN GROWTH URBAN PLANNING URBAN POPULATION URBAN POPULATION GROWTH URBAN RESEARCH URBAN RESIDENTS URBANIZATION WORLD POPULATION WORLD POPULATION PROJECTIONS Fuller, Brandon Romer, Paul Urbanization as Opportunity
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description	Urbanization deserves urgent attention from policy makers, academics, entrepreneurs, and social reformers of all stripes. Nothing else will create as many opportunities for social and economic progress. The urbanization project began roughly 1,000 years after the transition from the Pleistocene to the milder and more stable Holocene interglacial. In 2010, the urban population in developing countries stood at 2.5 billion. The developing world can accommodate the urban population growth and declining urban density in many ways. The most important citywide projects -- successes like New York and Shenzhen -- show even more clearly how influential human intention can be. The developing world can accommodate the urban population growth and declining urban density in many ways. One is to have a threefold increase in the average population of its existing cities and a six fold increase in their average built-out area. Another, which will leave the built-out area of existing cities unchanged, will be to develop 625 new cities of 10 million people -- 500 new cities to accommodate the net increase in the urban population and another 125 to accommodate the 1.25 billion people who will have to leave existing cities as average density falls by half.
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title	Urbanization as Opportunity
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title_full	Urbanization as Opportunity
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19540024/urbanization-opportunity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18743
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