Metropolitan development is a complex phenomenon depending on the joint action of
multiple socioeconomic and territorial factors, which are generally quantified through …

Identifying the driving factors of urban development and revealing its growth path is an
important step toward better understanding the dynamic process of urban evolution. We …

This special issue presents contributions to a collaborative effort to analyze 'the dynamics of
metropolitan processes and policies'. That effort was initiated at HASA (International Institute …

Urban expansion in advanced countries is the result of inherent transformations in
settlement forms and socioeconomic functions leading to new metropolitan configurations …

Despite some impressive advances recently in spatial analysis, one important spatial
question appears largely overlooked: how spatial dynamics differ across a range of socio …

This study illustrates an exploratory approach based on a Multiway Factor Analysis (MFA) to
estimate rapidity of change in complex urban systems, based on “fast” and “slow” variables …

This research utilized global coverage, annual, high‐quality land cover time‐series data to
explore the urban growth process in the core area, and in several buffer zones, of Beijing …

Understanding the effects of urbanization and formulating sustainable planning strategies
begins with an analysis of the dynamics of urban growth at various spatial and temporal …

After the last two centuries of intense and unprecedented urbanization, we need a clear
understanding of the ongoing trends of urban growth for a better insight of their possible …

Looking into the future and trying to visualize long-run regional disparities is difficult. There
is no agreed single theory to guide our model building, although some insight can be gained …