Ancient City, Universal Growth? Exploring Urban Expansion and Economic Development on Rome's Eastern Periphery

Uncontrolled Urban Expansion, Population Growth and Urban Development in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

This paper examines the inter-relationship of three major phenomena- population growth, uncontrolled urban expansion and urban development in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. Uncontrolled urban expansion has a resultant effect on the urban development of a city whereas uncontrolled urban development is caused by uncontrolled population increase is caused by Migration. This work encapsulates how population g...

Economic development, urban expansion, and sustainable development in Shanghai

Studies of urbanization effects in Chinese cities from the aspect of the coupled development of economy and environment are rare due to data limitations. This paper studied Shanghai’s fast urban expansion and examined the dynamic relationship between economic growth and environment consequences at the district level. We extracted data on urban built-up area and land surface temperature from rem...

Ancient Iranian Urban Structure and its Situation in Contemporary City

Analysis of social, cultural, economic, structures in the growth and development of urban tourism (case study: Galugah city)

Introduction Tourism is one of the most dynamic economic activities of the present era which plays an important role in the sustainable development of the cities. From one side tourism acts in certain spatial pattern foundations. One of these urban tourism spatial patterns that could be considered as the key element in the sustainable urban development. Tourism is combined of numerous factors...

Accelerated Urban Expansion in Lhasa City and the Implications for Sustainable Development in a Plateau City

Urbanization challenges regional sustainable development, but a slight expansion mechanism was revealed in a plateau city. We have integrated the urban expansion process and analyzed its determinants in Lhasa (Tibet), and we provide insightful suggestions for urban management and planning for Lhasa. The full continuum of the urban expansion process has been captured using time-series of high-re...