Over 800 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in slums. Why? I argue that slums are a result of …, and institutional factors. I trace the origins of disjointed modernization in sub-Saharan Africa back to the colonial … argue that status quo interests and the rise of an anti-urbanization bias in development discourse have inhibited investment …

district characteristics, particularly urbanization and the distance from a major urban agglomeration. State-level effects have …

Urbanization-led development brings not just demographic, technological, and economic change, but profound … institutional transition, as well. The scale and pace of China’s urbanization project have generated a crisis for millions living in … rural–urban peripheries. We will utilize a model of institutional fit to conduct a critical analysis of China’s urbanization …

urban in sub-Saharan Africa has slowed or is even stagnating. This has major policy implications. Many standard reviews of … the region still, however, tend to maintain that urbanization is occurring rapidly but, as this paper demonstrates, the … towns in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa’s most populous country with the region’s most complex urban system. This paper also …