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

Sebastian Scheuer, Dagmar Haase and Martin Volk

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2016
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