Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil
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Prosperity and Social Inequalities: Montes Claros, How to Plan an Intermediary City in Brazil
According to international statistics, nearly 50% of the world’s urban population live nowadays in cities of less than 500,000 inhabitants. These small and medium-sized cities play a role of intermediation between rural regions, local economy and more extensed urban networks, with three spheres of influence: micro-regional, national and international. In many of these “intermediate cities”, the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Urban Studies
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2328-4900,2328-4919
DOI: 10.4236/cus.2016.42013