Urban agglomeration is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities. It occurs when
the relationships among cities shift from mainly competition to both competition and …

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the nature of the on-going urban transition in
developing countries, the quality of the available data, and the uncertainty of existing urban …

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is
accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are …

Rapid urbanization in Asian developing countries has led to large urban agglomerations
called “megacities.” The Jakarta megacity keeps growing and has extended along a corridor …

TO DATE, MOST development theory and practice have focused on either “urban” or “rural”
issues with little consideration of the interrelations between the two. By contrast, several …

The notion of polycentricity is gaining widespread currency in both academic and
professional debates. It has opened its way in the spatial policy documents of the European …

The peri-urban (sometimes also called the urban fringe) may be the dominant urban form
and spatial planning challenge of the twenty-first century. In older industrial or post-industrial …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical …

This chapter reviews current thinking about environment-development issues in the
transitional zones between distinctly urban and unambiguously rural areas, known variously …

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element
in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An …