In the twenty-first century, the global context is dominated by three new phenomena or new nature in the history of mankind: globalization, internationalization and worldwide development. Question the current and future planetary situation requires prior clarification of these three concepts...

The process of urbanization seems to have delivered clear benchmarks in the knowledge of settlement territories. These are simply duals, because of the distinction between those of urban nature, high population density, and those rural nature, low density. However, this binary presentation does...