This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization--that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot find adequate shelter and do not have the means to feed...

Regional trajectories in the urban transformation : convergences and divergences / Josef Gugler -- A history of the city in Monsoon Asia / Rhoads Murphey -- Urbanization in China : reassessing an evolving model / Xiangming Chen and William L. Parish -- Urbanization in India : patterns and...