What is the relationship between urbanization and economic growth? Though many
scholars have long documented the impact of urbanization on economic growth, others find …

The authors review the empirical evidence on two key hypotheses derived from the model of
the city as a growth machine. The first posits the pervasive influence of progrowth coalitions …

The overall growth and expansion of cities has been of long-standing interest to economists
because of the association of urbanization and industrialization with economic growth …

In light of the United Nations'(UN) latest urbanization projections, par-ticularly with respect to
India and the People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives …

Urbanization and economic development go hand-in-hand as a country moves from a rural-
agricultural base to an urban-industrial base. This paper argues that urbanization per se …

Understanding the factors and processes that help regions sustain economic growth has
become a topic of increasing interest in recent years. We examine factors associated with …

The paper investigates (1) the evolution of urban concentration from 1985 to 2010 in 68
countries around the world and (2) the extent to which the degree of urban concentration …

This paper estimates their contributions to total gross state domestic product in an attempt to
revisit the issue of cities as the engine of growth. Because direct evidence on this aspect is …

This paper provides a survey and guide to the literature relevant to urbanization and
economic development. The paper starts with some basic facts and trends about …

Urban scaling laws summarise how socio-economic behaviours of urban systems may be
predicted from city size. While most scaling analysis rests on using aggregate quantities …