For programs to be responsive to the specific spatial contexts, growth drivers, constraints to economic activity, and the economic potential of cities in India's complex city system, which comprises of 4,041 statutory cities and towns as per the 2011 census, a one-size-fits-all approach to urban...

"In recent years, urban policy-makers have been urged to adopt the development of urban policies for shrinking cities from an urban management perspective. However, urban management in shrinking cities is a difficult problem because it is fiscally restrictive compared with cities with growing...

As the governance modernization and new-type urbanization deepens, China's urbanization process is gradually entering the "second half". Understanding the policy practices and transformation logic of China's urban spatial growth in a systematic perspective is significant in clarifying the...

This paper explores the macroeconomic consequences of regulatory barriers in housing markets. We take a European perspective, allowing us to offer novel facts, theory, and methodology. Our focus is on Germany, a compelling case exemplifying key characteristics unique to European city systems. To...

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) are strategic business transactions that combine the ownership of one firm with another, typically to achieve synergies, growth, and diversification. However, the spatial implications of transferring corporate control between cities have been largely overlooked....

Previous studies suggest that market forces and the strategic behavior of local governments regarding land development jointly contribute to rapid urban expansion in China. In underdeveloped small cities in Western China, the market is weak, and local governments lack the conditions required to...

Rapid urbanization in Lebanon poses problems of adaptation to climate change. This article aims to forecast and characterize urban growth, and to cross-analyze urban growth with anticipated temperature and precipitation information. It uses a combination of land use and land cover forecasts with...

Land use change driven by urbanization alters the landscape, transforming natural habitats into built surfaces, which impacts ecological balance and socio-economic development. The present research tries to investigate two components of landscape dynamics in the Tinsukia district of Assam,...

The escalating complexities of rapid urbanization necessitate a paradigm shift in urban form evaluation, moving beyond traditional horizontal analyses to incorporate the crucial dimension of vertical growth. This study pioneers a volumetric approach, integrating 3D and 2D spatial analyses, to...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing urban planning by enhancing the simulation of urban growth and land-use changes. Most AI models often fail to predict how proposed development areas will shape future expansion, leading to misaligned planning and urban sprawl. This study addresses...

The West African region, one of the largest urban agglomerations in Africa has over decades experienced rapid rate of urbanization. The urbanization processes have been associated with manifold environmental and socioeconomic challenges including inefficient urban infrastructure, unaffordable...

The ability of cities to recuperate from disturbances and return to their evolutionary pathways depends, first and foremost, on the type of damage that the shock created. But in addition, it depends on how information is transmitted in the urban system and on how noise filters distort the...

Land use modelling is essential to understanding future land use and change dynamics. Analyses of land use and change using Cellular Automata (CA) have been frequent in the literature since the latter were introduced to geography in the 1970s. In this paper, the statistical subsections - city...

We study the post-war effects of the bombing of German cities during WWII on urban growth and use the synthetic control method (SCM) to construct comparison units for affected West-German cities. The reason to use SCM is that cities might experience structural changes that have nothing to do...

This study extends the concept of granularity from firms to cities, examining how large cities influence national economic dynamics beyond their relative size. By applying Zipf's law, which describes the power law distribution of city sizes, we investigate the interplay between granularity and...

We examine how agglomeration economies have influenced labour earnings in France over forty years. First, we define cities dynamically to account for their changing footprints. Our findings show that aggregate wage growth is mainly driven by growth in larger cities, rather than smaller ones or...

Being intertwined with economic development, urbanization determines the present and future development path of regions and countries. The intimate relationship between urban expansion and economic development is of particular interest in the case of large regions with complex (and mostly...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Dynamics and Complexity of Cities -- Chapter 3. Building Digital Twins of Cities via Governing Equations -- Chapter 4. Data-Driven Approach to the Construction of Digital Twins of Cities -- Chapter 5. Building Digital Twins of Cities via Urban...

1. Introduction to Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Planning in Southern Africa -- 2. Theoretical Foundations of Urban Resilience and Sustainable Development -- 3. Historical Context: Urban Growth and Disaster Risks in Southern Africa -- 4. Disaster Risk Reduction in Urban Planning: Global...

Thailand's urban planning was stuck in a growth paradigm that concentrated on land-use management to respond to the population and economic growth since 1975. However, most provincial cities have experienced a population decline. As a result, many of the provincial cities' comprehensive plans...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Mexico City, Mexico. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of City integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Helsinki, Finland. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main...

Are Chinese cities too agglomerated, and are production factors continuing to flow to cities? Based on the panel data of 31 provinces and cities from 2006 to 2019，it is generally believed that urbanization has a positive role in promoting economic growth. This paper adds economic agglomeration...

Previous studies report mixed findings on the causal relationship between language diversity and its representation of cultural diversity, and economic and social development. We consider language relatedness a prerequisite for language diversity research, and theoretically analyze the impact of...

In order to explore the causal relationship between the level of urban digital construction and urban economic growth, this paper takes 280 cities in China as the research object and constructs a comprehensive indicator evaluation system covering digital infrastructure, overall economic level,...