On Sudden Urban Growth

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ID4852481
AuthorsG J Papageorgiou (McMaster University), George Papageorgiou (0000-0003-3288-6419, McMaster University, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume12
Issue9
Pages1035-1050
Publication date1980-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a121035
PMID12278846
OpenAlexW2108675905
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited3

The purpose of this paper is to explain sudden urban growth, a global phenomenon of astonishing force that presents one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. The forces that shape urban growth are many and varied. Such forces produce an array of histories of urbanization ranging from continuity to various catastrophic shifts along the population trajectory. It is seen that the realized history of urbanization explicitly depends on the prevailing characteristics of individuals and of the existing technology. Hence, in principle, given a knowledge of these characteristics (and given some other information explained in the text), it would be possible to predict the path toward urbanization taken by simple worlds such as those considered here, Different outcomes would then be attributed to and explained by different behavioural and technological circumstances

Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Humanity · Neoclassical economics · Phenomenon · Physics · Political science · Population · Population growth · Sociology · Trajectory · Urbanization · Demography · Historical and Architectural Studies · Law · Philosophy

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