Overview
- Presents the discussion of controversial questions by experts in urban sciences
- Provides clear presentation of diverging and converging visions about crucial urban issues
- Discusses the views from famous prominent scholars in major parts of the world
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Theories of Complexity and Urban Systems
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Scaling Laws: Universal Solutions for Urban Planning or Contingent Products of Circumstances?
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Economy Versus Geography: Theories of Urbanization and Cities Development
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Urban Theories and International Comparisons
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Complex Systems Modeling for Better Understanding Urbanization Theories
Keywords
- world urbanization
- evolutionary economic geography
- historical complex systems
- spatial simulation models
- urban diversity
- cities and systems of cities
- urban processes
- urban systems
- urban planning
- urban economics
- mega cities
- emerging countries
- urbanization theory
- urban geography and urbanism
- complexity
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theories and Models of Urbanization
Book Subtitle: Geography, Economics and Computing Sciences
Editors: Denise Pumain
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36656-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36655-1Published: 04 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36658-2Published: 04 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36656-8Published: 02 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 330
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Economics, Complexity