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Urbanisation refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialisation. When more and more inanimate sources of energy were used to enhance human productivity (industrialisation), surpluses increased in both agriculture and industry. Larger and larger proportions of a population could live in cities. Economic forces were such that cities became the ideal places to locate factories and their workers. As the 21st century heats up the rate, pace and complications posed by urbanisation continue unabated. This new book presents the latest research in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface; An Analysis and System Construction on the Land Use of City Wetland Park; Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics on the Prediction of Urban Thermal Environment and Urban Safety; Urbanization: 21st Century Issues and Challenges; Urbanization and the Increasing Risk from Mosquito-borne Diseases: Linking Human Well-Being with Ecosystem Health; Urbanization, Economic Development and Income Inequality: A Demographic Perspective; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Urbanization in the Health District of Ferrara, Italy, in 1964-1998; China's Urbanization: New Trends and Challenges of Conceptualization; Biodiversity and Ecology of Hydrobionts in the Natural and Anthropogenic Landscapes; Sustainable Rates of Groundwater Extraction in an Urbanized Plain, Central Japan; Spatial Effects of the Interaction between Environment and Urban Area and Approaches to Coordination in Xi'an; Measuring Urbanization in Low Income Countries for Public Health Interventions; Index.

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