The mega-city region was projected as the future outcome of the urbanization process,
which is commonly composed of single or multiple main cities and peripheral cities through …

The unplanned urban expansion and extreme population pressure have caused several
bottlenecks for city dwellers, which have been reflected in the form of inter-urban spatial …

This book offers insights into the process and the practice of local economic development.
Bridging the gap between theory and practice it demonstrates the relevance of theory to …

Continued urban population expansion will be a defining challenge for climate change
mitigation, and global sustainability more generally, over the coming decades. In this …

An understanding of how Social Overhead Capital (SOC) is associated with the land value
of the local community is important for effective urban planning. However, even within a …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between urban
agglomeration and income inequality. The World Bank and the United Nations place Sub …

A city (or an urban cluster) is not an isolated spatial unit, but a combination of areas with
closely linked socio-economic activities. However, so far, we lack a consistent and …

As cities continuously expand and with the emergence of mega-city regions, the urban
functional zones (UFZs) have spread beyond their original administrative boundaries. An …

Current planning strategies promoting suburbanisation, land use zoning and low built-up
density areas tend to increase the environmental footprint of cities. In the last decades …

The study analyses the dynamic effect of rural-urban relationship, economic growth and
urban agglomeration in sub-Saharan Africa with a view of testing the validity of the …