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Declaration of Brussels on Human Well-being in Cities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Pierre Laconte
Affiliation:
c/o Service Expansion Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Georges Lemaître 13, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Extract

Most of the large cities of the world are in trouble, and yet in the decades to come a vast additional number of people will live in cities. Enormous population increase produces the steep graphs we are familiar with, yet the graphs showing urbanization are even steeper, due to the migration from country to city.

Type
Main Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1976

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Footnotes

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Issued at the end of the Conference on the Environment of Human Settlements, organized by our collaborators the World Environment and Resources Council (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 2 vols, 1976), see our last issue, page 154.—Ed.

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* Issued at the end of the Conference on the Environment of Human Settlements, organized by our collaborators the World Environment and Resources Council (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 2 vols, 1976), see our last issue, page 154.—Ed.