"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When … suburban development, focusing on issues associated with the scale and pace of rapid urbanization around the world. Editors …

Urbanization is a fundamental trend of the past two centuries, shaping many dimensions of the modern world. To guide … for information on the extent and nature of urban land cover. However, measuring urbanization is challenging, especially … products vary in their definition of “urban” and typically characterize urbanization in a specific point (or points) in time …

Urbanization, as such, is not perceived as a threat to the environment and development but it is unplanned urban sprawl … City has been observed as a threat to achieving sustainable urbanization. …