Unexceptionally all metropolitan areas throughout the world are surrounded by peri-urban
areas that are neither urban nor rural in the conventional sense. Peri-urban areas are …

China's urbanization is significant worldwide. This process is characterized by
underurbanization of population and fast urban land expansion. The driving forces behind …

Urbanization is an unavoidable force resulting in the directional change of metropolitan
growth around the world, altering their structure and having a profound impact on the …

Scholars have widely discussed the issue of how to govern rapidly growing metropolitan
regions under the economic, social and political pressures of globalization. Many have …

Albeit, urban encroachment to peri-urban areas is a global phenomenon, dimensions of
such peri-urban growth vary depending on the context. There little evidence exists in the …

The approach and efficacy of South East Queensland's (Australia) regional planning
strategy to manage urban and peri-urban growth is described and discussed from document …

The process by which cities (or urban areas) expand over time has remained a key focus for
geographers, ecologists and other scientists interested in urban phenomena for decades …

This chapter argues that policy mobility, a process where policies and ideas travel across
space and time, is an important dimension of the boundary-crossing flows of sustainable …

This study explored Vietnam's urbanization process and spatial restructuring over the last 30
years to conceptualize a new phenomenon challenging the concept of desakota. We …

Peri-urbanisation is a dynamic phenomenon that is perpetually altering the territories of the
metropolises and land management regimes for peri-urban areas have left a void in …