Suggested Sources for a Paper on the Future of Large Cities

Ahmad, E. (2007), “Big, or Too Big?”, Finance and Development, September 2007, pp 20-23.

Glaeser, E., (2012), “The Challenge of Urban Policy”, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp 111-122.

Hansen, Niles (2001), “Are Very Large Cities Successful? Searching for Dynamic Externalities versus Evidence from Population Movements”, International Regional Science Review v24, n3 (July 2001): 344-359.

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Demographic Causes of Urbanization

Boustan, L. and A. Shertzer, (2013), “Population Trends as a Counterweight to Central City Decline, 1950-2000.”, Demography, Vol. 50, pp 125-147.(Consider only pp 125-129 and pp 144-145.)

Dyson, T. (2011), “The Role of the Demographic Transition in the Process of Urbanization”, Population and Development Review, Vol. 37 Supplement, pp 34-54. (Consider only pp 34-40 and 50-51.)

Nunn, N.; and N. Qian, (2011), “The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical Experiment”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 126, pp 593-650. (Consider only pp 595-598 and pp 643.)

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The role of income distribution in determining the future of cities

Yuki, K. (2007), “Urbanization, informal sector and development”, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 84, pp 76-103. (Consider only Section 1 Introduction and Section 5 Conclusions.)

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Urbanization in Developing Countries

Fox, S., (2012), “Urbanization as a Global Historical Process: Theory and Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”, in Population and Development Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp 285-310. (Consider4 only pp 285-289 and pp 303-304.)

Potts, D., (2012), “Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria”, World Development, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 1382-1393. (Consider only pp 1382-1384 and pp 1390.)

Roberts, B., (2005) “Globalization and Latin American Cities”, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 291, pp 110-123.

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