Metropolitan areas worldwide have grown rapidly and are usually surrounded by peri-urban
zones that are neither urban nor rural. Despite widespread use of the term 'peri-urban' …

The realization path of urban agglomerations' green development (UGD) varies by the
characteristic differences of financial agglomeration (FA). We decomposed FA from new …

Urban agglomeration is an important means of collaborative regional development, and a
critical organizational form for cities when their industrialization and urbanization develop to …

Expansion of urban areas accompanied by decreasing population density results in
inefficient urban growth from a spatial-ecological perspective. This study examines …

Given the interdependence of climate change (CLC) and urban expansion (URE) on
ecosystem productivity in China and India, hybrid physics-based models were fitted in this …

In this article, we make the case for the existence of global macro-patterns of urban change
and urban growth, in particular, which may be recognized across metropolitan systems …

Governing the future growth of the world's megacities towards higher land use efficiency is
important for achieving global sustainability. We have computed statistics of the urban …

The spatial configuration and the dynamics of urban physical growth are important topics of
analysis in contemporary urban studies. This paper examined urban land expansion and …

Urbanization has an abundant connotation in dimensions such as population, economy,
land, and society and is an important sign to measure regional economic development and …

Urbanization is advancing rapidly across the globe, and urban agglomeration (UA) has
become an important by-product of urbanization expansion. The rapid development of UAs …