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This in turn has led to lowered income in rural areas and therefore higher migration to urban areas. (Rakodi, 1997; Aase, 2003). Finally it should be mentioned that war and economic misconduct have led to the dilution of rural resources and periodically very high rural-urban migration. At the end of the 1980s, there were only 18 African ...
Urban districts were abolished on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. On this date, a new non-metropolitan district called Basildon was created, covering the whole area of the former Basildon Urban District plus the small part of the neighbouring Thurrock Urban District which fell within the designated area for Basildon New Town.
18 hours ago · Early history Logo of the Araneta City as Araneta Center. The 35 hectares (86 acres) property where the Araneta City, formerly named Araneta Center, is located in Quezon City, and was purchased by J. Amado Araneta in 1952, after the family's mansion in Taft Avenue, Manila was destroyed during the Battle of Manila in 1945.
- 35 ha (86 acres)
- ACI, Inc.
- Philippines
18 hours ago · The town council has four urban districts or settlements that are geographically separate from one another: El Espinar, San Rafael, La Estación de El Espinar and Los Ángeles de San Rafael. As El Espinar is the oldest and the most populated one, it gives the name to the entire local territory and it has the town hall's headquarters.
- 204 km² (79 sq mi)
- El Espinar
- Spain
- Segovia
18 hours ago · The Cleveland metropolitan area, or Greater Cleveland as it is more commonly known, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio, United States.
18 hours ago · Kapurthala district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. The city of Kapurthala is the district headquarters.. Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population, with 815,168 people by the 2011 census.
18 hours ago · The rules recognised (inter alia) the Congo Basin as a free-trade zone. But Leopold II emerged triumphant from the Berlin Conference [13] and his single shareholder "philanthropic" organization received a large share of territory (2,344,000 km 2 (905,000 sq mi)) to be organized as the Congo Free State .
