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Urbanization and the metropolitan environment: lessons from New York and Shanghai.

From: Environment  |  Date: 5/1/2006  |  Author: Leichenko, Robin M.; Solecki, William D.

Urban sustainability efforts have reached a crossroads. Recent activities to enhance the prospects of urban sustainability are increasingly hampered by political barriers such as cross-boundary jurisdictional conflicts and by technological concerns such as environmental quality measurement. (1) The problem is compounded by the emerging reality of twenty-first century cities, which includes dramatic population growth, accelerating urban decentralization, and heightened resource ...

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