Africa has been a hotspot of rapid urban growth since 2000, yet no review exists that
describes the current state of urban growth modeling. This review aims to fill this gap by …

After decades of academic and policy scepticism on the role of urbanisation in economic,
social and cultural change, the issue is attracting renewed academic focus and political …

This article responds to the significant amount of urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa that is
occurring in historically rural areas. As towns become reclassified as 'urban', many will be …

Models of human migration provide powerful tools to forecast the flow of migrants, measure
the impact of a policy, determine the cost of physical and political frictions and more. Here …

In the next twenty years, urban populations in Africa are expected to double, while urban
land cover could triple. An often-overlooked dimension of this urban transformation is the …

This paper focusses on urbanisation in rural regions of Africa, and in particular on the type of
settlement growth that occurs not in proximity to, but rather disassociated from, existing …

Due to their centrality, some cities with a strategic position in the urban network become
hubs for trade and benefit from the spillover effects of being close to more people. Yet …

It is projected that by the middle of this century, the majority of Africans will be urban
residents, although with huge variations between countries, as is the case today …

In this study, we present methods to assess newly developed urban impervious surface
(UIS) datasets derived from satellite imagery of the cities of Kumasi and Accra, Ghana, at …

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