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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on April 19, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(11):1065-1066; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj158
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

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Handbook of Urban Health: Populations, Methods, and Practice Edited by Sandro Galea and David Vlahov

ISBN 0387239944, Springer Publishing Company, New York, New York (Telephone: 877-687-7476, E-mail: contactus@springerpub.com, Website: www.springerpub.com), 2005, 599 pp., $89.95 (Hardback)

Lynne C. Messer1 and Jay S. Kaufman2

1 Human Studies Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435

(e-mail: Jay_Kaufman@unc.edu)

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In Clifford D. Simak's 1952 science fiction classic, City, the metropolis is dead by the end of the 20th century. Cheap atomic power and ubiquitous private helicopters have made concentrated human existence a quaint memory. Simak could not have been more wrong, of course. About half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and the relentless squeezing of teeming masses of human beings into megacities shows no sign of abating. In light of the ascendance of the megalopolis as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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