• Editors' Summary
• Credits

1. An Urban Future
2. The Urban Poor
3. Pollution and Health
4. Impact on the Environment
5. Making Urban Areas Work

• Figures
• Tables
• Side-bars
• Bibliography

• Developing countries face fastest urban growth
• Why urban areas are growing
• The poor have greatest health risks
• Heavy ecological footprints
• Improving urban governance
• Assuring water and sanitation
• Mumbai cleans up

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Published by the Population Information Program, Center for Communication Programs, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, 111 Market Place, Suite 310, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA

Credits

This report was prepared by Don Hinrichsen, Ruwaida M. Salem, MPH, and Richard Blackburn, MS. Deepa Ramchandran, MHS, provided research assistance. Bryant Robey, Editor. Stephen M. Goldstein, Managing Editor. Design by Linda D. Sadler. Production by John Fiege, Peter Hammerer, Mónica Jiménez, and Deborah Maenner.

Population Reports appreciates the assistance of the following reviewers: Fred Arnold, Jeff Boyer, York Bradshaw, Ian Douglas, Salah El-Shakhs, Robert Engelman, Marcia Urquhart Glenn, Mark D. Gottdiener, Michael Leaf, Malcolm Potts, John Rowley, David Satterthwaite, Pramilla Senanayake, Molly O’Meara Sheehan, David A. Smith, J. Joseph Speidel, and Michael Timberlake.

Suggested citation: Hinrichsen, D., Salem, R., and Blackburn, R. Meeting the Urban Challenge. Population Reports, Series M, No. 16. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Population Information Program, Fall 2002.

Jane T. Bertrand, PhD, MBA, Professor and Director, Center for Communication Programs and Principal Investigator, Population Information Program (PIP)

Ward Rinehart, Project Director, PIP

Anne W. Compton, Deputy Director, PIP, and Chief, POPLINE Digital Services

Hugh M. Rigby, Associate Director, PIP, and Chief, Media/Materials Clearinghouse

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Population Reports is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Agency for International Development or the Johns Hopkins University.

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