As a growing proportion of world's population lives in cities and towns, food security is
increasingly acquiring an urban character. The locus of food security research and policy …

The urban transition is generally imagined as a large-scale permanent migration of people
from villages to cities. The formation of new cities is also theorized as occurring through the …

This article reports on an urbanization process that can be described as injected urbanism.
While conventional Northern theoretical perspectives capture an important role for one-way …

One of the emerging research trends from urbanization is the study of urban growth patterns.
These growth patterns are primarily based on the growth of the local economy that directly …

Peri-urbanization in developing countries is a double-edged sword. It creates many
economic opportunities but disrupts peri-urban livelihoods. Through a systematic literature …

Urban research has scarcely investigated the planning context of the “ruralopolis”—poor
and predominantly agrarian regions of the Global South with very high population densities …