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On Sudden Urban Growth

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

September 1980

DOI

10.1068/a121035

ISSN

0308-518X

Associated Experts

George John Papageorgiou

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science

Labels

Fields of Research (FoR)

3304 Urban and regional planning 4406 Human geography 4410 Sociology

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