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"The uneven globality of children".


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, "The Uneven Globality of Children"

The article shows that geography is still destiny Destiny

goddess of destiny of mankind. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 78]

See : Fate
 for millions of children. Based on global UN data about various demographic factors and the urban explosion after 1950, the geography of regional poverty and power reveals three major trends. First, over 50 percent of the world population will live in cities after 2007. Second, by 2030, the cities of the poor countries of the world will house four times as many people as the cities of the well-to-do countries. Third, the population living in urban slums--the most rapidly growing structure of the urban landscape in the less developed world--will double to almost 2 billion in the next 15 years. The rifting apart of affluent and poor urban environments thus marks the "uneven globality" of children today. A theoretical note on global homogenization homogenization (həmŏj'ənəzā`shən), process in which a mixture is made uniform throughout. Generally this procedure involves reducing the size of the particles of one component of the mixture and dispersing them evenly , its political potential and differential force differential force,
n a term sometimes used to describe the design and application of an orthodontic appliance to distribute the reciprocal forces of the appliance over significantly different root areas with the objective of eliciting a differential response.
 in the socionatural system of global technoscience Technoscience is a concept widely used in the interdisciplinary community of science and technology studies to designate the technological and social context of science. The notion indicates a common recognition that scientific knowledge is not only socially coded and historically  and local cultures, concludes this contribution.
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Title Annotation:effect of population growth
Publication:Journal of Social History
Article Type:Brief Article
Date:Jun 22, 2005
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