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On the Nexus of the Spatial Dynamics of Global Urbanization and the Age of the City

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  • Sebastian Scheuer
  • Dagmar Haase
  • Martin Volk

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A number of concepts exist regarding how urbanization can be described as a process. Understanding this process that affects billions of people and its future development in a spatial manner is imperative to address related issues such as human quality of life. In the focus of spatially explicit studies on urbanization is typically a city, a particular urban region, an agglomeration. However, gaps remain in spatially explicit global models. This paper addresses that issue by examining the spatial dynamics of urban areas over time, for a full coverage of the world. The presented model identifies past, present and potential future hotspots of urbanization as a function of an urban area's spatial variation and age, whose relation could be depicted both as a proxy and as a path of urban development.

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  • Sebastian Scheuer & Dagmar Haase & Martin Volk, 2016. "On the Nexus of the Spatial Dynamics of Global Urbanization and the Age of the City," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(8), pages 1-20, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0160471
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160471
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