By 2007, the world will pass from being a mainly rural to a mainly urban population. Large cities, including mega cities with more than 10 million people, present key challenges relating to sustainable development and citizenship. Each title in this new geography series reveals reasons for the city's location and the structure of the population, and explores environmental issues such as transport, waste, pollution and wildlife, city economy, culture, leisure and tourism and look to the future.
Table of Contents
Contents Living in an urban world 8 The history of Cape Town 12 The people of Cape Town 18 Living in the city 22 The Cape Town economy 30 Managing Cape Town 36 Transport for Cape Town 40 Culture, leisure and tourism 44 The Cape town environment 50 The Cape Town of tomorrow 56 Glossary 58 Further information 59 Index 60
Author Biography
Rob Bowden is a freelance development geographer, a teacher and also a photographer. He is a regular visitor to Kenya and is involved in several development projects there. He has written several books for children on environmental and development issues including three titles from the highly successful Countries of the World series published by Evans Brothers.
