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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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Singapore : Springer Singapore , 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences,
Témata:
Urban geography.
Physical geography.
Sustainable development.
Culture-Study and teaching.
ISBN:9789811077999
ISSN:2198-3542
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Obsah:
  • 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.

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