Journal article
On Sudden Urban Growth
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explain sudden urban growth, a global phenomenon of astonishing force that presents one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. The forces that shape urban growth are many and varied. Such forces produce an array of histories of urbanization ranging from continuity to various catastrophic shifts along the population trajectory. It is seen that the realized history of urbanization explicitly depends on …
Authors
Papageorgiou GJ
Journal
Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 1035–1050
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
9 1980
DOI
10.1068/a121035
ISSN
0308-518X