Globally, cities are the source of over 70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cities are also the engines of the global economy, concentrating more than half the world’s population, and they are where the middle class is rapidly expanding. Indeed, by the year 2050, two-thirds of the world will be urban, with cities accommodating an additional 2.5 billion people over today’s total. Nearly all of this urban growth will occur in developing...
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DETAILS
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2020/11/13
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Report
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154408
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2
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2021/06/08
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Disclosed
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Metropolitan Case Studies
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Sustainable City Infrastructure and Services
Citation
Mehrotra,Shagun; Lewis,Lincoln Landon; Orloff,Mariana; Olberding,Beth.
Greater Than Parts : A Metropolitan Opportunity (Vol. 2 of 12) : Metropolitan Case Studies (English). Greater Than Parts Series Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/310581623176284580