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' …

In the last decade, the peri-urbanization literature has attracted a lot of attention and many
scholars have tried to examine these areas from different dimensions, leading to a …

This study analyzes the spatio-temporal patterns of urban growth for the Kolkata Urban
Agglomeration (KUA) in eastern India using dynamic spatial territorial extents and compares …

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 …

In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan
areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of …

In this article, we revisit the 'local turn'debate in the peacebuilding literature, and explore its
most recent and promising approach to 'the local', focussing on post-war cities and on urban …

In this article we suggest that the process of peri-urban formation is a case of “exploded
urbanism”–a situation in which urban features fly like shrapnel from the urban core to the …

The territories between urban and rural areas, also called urban–rural fringe, commonly
present inherent instability and notable heterogeneity. However, investigating the …

The urbansingle bondrural interface is the frontier of urban expansion and rural
development. Understanding the differentiation and driving mechanism of the urbansingle …

The purpose of this study is a review of urban growth containment policies for the guidance
and control of peri-urbanization. The review of selected resources illustrates two policies:" …