International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems
This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems. It relies on a vision of cities sharing common dynamic features as co-evolving entities in complex systems. Systems of cities that are interdependent in their evolu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Springer Nature Singapore
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
| Series: | Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- An Evolutionary theory of Urban Systems
- Urban Systems Between National and Global: Recent Reconfiguration Through Transnational Networks
- Preliminary Typology of Cities and Systems of Cities
- The United States Urban System: From Colonial Settlements to Global Urban Centers, an Original Trajectory
- The Canadian Urban System: Urban Canada Goes Global
- Metropolization and polycentrism in the European Urban system
- Changes in the Japanese Urban System Since the 1950s: Urbanization, Demography, and the Management Function
- The South American Urban System: Primacy, Urban Concentration and Emerging Morphologies
- The Brazilian Urban System: Specialization and Regional Development
- The Chinese Urban System: Between Multi-level Political Evolution and Economic Transition
- Diffuse Urbanization and Mega Urban Regions in India: Between Reluctant and Restrictive Urbanism?
- The Russian Urban System: Evolution Engaged with Transition
- The South African Urban System: Coming to Terms with the Legacy of Social Control and Exclusion?
- Urbanization in Africa: Trends, Regional Specificities and Challenges
- The Sustainability of Urbanization in Africa’s Great Lakes Region: Trends and Policies Options
- Extended Metropolitan Development in Southeast Asia: From Primate Cities to Rerritorial Urban Diffusion