World Urbanization Prospects and the Problem of Its Infrastructural Provision
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This article describes world urbanization prospects, discovers some peculiarities of city growth in different regions, and makes the analysis of dependencies in economic growth and infrastructure investments. As a result, considerable discrepancies in urbanization process and its infrastructure provision are revealed, and new sources of finance for solution of this problem are offered.
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