Contemporary urbanization differs from historical patterns of urban growth in terms of scale,
rate, location, form, and function. This review discusses the characteristics of contemporary …

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' …

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 …

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

As urban systems continue to grow worldwide, urban peripheries increase in number and
typologies, which makes their planning a challenge for sustainable development. The aim of …

Peri-urban areas have been commonly defined as transitional zones located in the outskirts
of a designated city boundary, where rural and urban characteristics meet each other …

Peri-urban landscapes (PULs) are specific transitional forms of urban landscapes
undergoing dynamic land-use changes. PULs' transformations are driven by close and …

Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly
dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like …

Accelerated urbanization in peri-urban areas of metropolises is one of the emerging issues
of the past decades which has numerous physical, social, economic, and environmental …

Past studies on urbanization in East Asia in general and in Indonesia in particular have
taken the edge of large cities as the extension of the metropolitan core where the zones of …