From: Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1996), p. 87

Books

The Challenge of Urbanization: The World's Largest Cities, Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis
(New York: United Nations, 1995), 290 p. ST/ESA/SER.A/151, Sales No. E.96.XIII.4

Published as a contribution to the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), which will be held at Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1996, this book focuses on the demographic characteristics, economic structure, available social services and infrastructure of the world's large cities. Included are profiles of a number of cities in the ESCAP region: Bangkok, Beijing, Bombay (recently renamed Mumbai), Calcutta, Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jakarta, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Metro Manila, Moscow, Osaka, Port Moresby, Pusan, St. Petersburg, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Suva, Sydney, Tehran, Tianjin, Tokyo, Wellington and Yangon.

Review and Appraisal of the World Population Plan of Action: 1994 Report, Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis (New York: United Nations, 1995), 150 p. ST/ESA/SER.A/152, Sales No. E.95.XIII.27

This report presents the findings of the fourth review and appraisal of the World Population Plan of Action, adopted at the World Population Conference held at Bucharest in August 1974. It focuses on 30 selected population issues and provides an overall assessment of implementation of the Plan of Action.

Multiregional Demography, by Andrei Rogers (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995), 236 p. plus computer diskette.

This book is devoted entirely to methodological approaches to that branch of demography which analyses simultaneously the spatial dynamics of a system of several interdependent populations linked by directional migration flows. It was written in recognition of the fact that many of the major problems associated with national population growth and development revolve around the differential impacts of migration between countries, and between the rural-urban, city-suburban, and depressed-expanding subregions of national economies. Intended for mathematically inclined demographers, sociologists, geographers, economists and regional planners, the text includes a general multiregional computer program called SPACE.

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