The proportion of a country's population living in urban areas is highly correlated with its level of income. Urban areas offer economies of scale and richer market structures, and there is strong evidence that workers in urban areas are individually more productive, and earn more, than rural workers. However, rapid urbanization is also associated with crowding, environmental degradation, and o...

cooperation among actors is an essential part of urban regeneration initiatives. the main idea of this paper is that, citizens with higher levels of quality of life have more abilities to take part in regeneration and so have more positive attitudes to these initiatives. all real estate owners and residents in all urban distressed areas in mashhad were the statistical population of this researc...

Unprecedented growth of urban population presents a major challenge for sustainable economic growth. The State of Punjab which was known for its agricultural performance and dynamic rural economy upto 1990s is now emerging as a service economy dominated by urban sector. The State of Punjab has emerged as the sixth major urbanised State in India. According to the 2011 census 37.49 per cent of th...

one of the most important subjects in 21 century in relation to sustainable urban development is urban form. urban form that is pattern of spatial distribution of human activities in a specific period can be divided into two kinds: compact city and urban sprawl. because there is a close relation between urban form and urban sustainability, urban planners have to know about urban pattern and for...

Every human activity creates waste (Tciiobanoglous et al., 1993). India is the second most populous nation in the world; the uncontrolled growth of urban areas has led to deficiency in infrastructural services such as: water supply, sewage and municipal solid waste management (MSWM). The burgeoning population has resulted in a massive pressure on the health-care services, leading to huge amount...

The rural-urban interface begins where suburbs end and extends into rural areas. In the United States, significant changes in land use and population have occurred in the rural-urban interface. These areas, which are also referred to as exurban areas, accounted for over one-fourth of total population growth from 1960 to 1990. By 1990, approximately 60 million people (24% of the total population...

Rapid urban growth induces global environmental change, particularly when it comes to production, consumption, and the generation of waste. According to the United Nations, most of the world's population will be living in cities by the year 2030. In developing countries, urban agglomerations are growing at twice the rate of overall population growth. Each day, approximately 160,000 people migra...

During the next three decades, the world population is expected to increase from 6.1 billion to 8.1 billion, with nearly all of this growth concentrated in urban areas (from 2.9 billion to 4.9 billion). While only 30% of the world population lived in urban areas in 1950, this has increased to 47% by 2000 and is expected to reach 60% by 2030, of which 80% (3.9 million) will be living in less dev...

Rapidly increasing urbanization in the world, especially in developing countries, let to increasing urban extents. Rapid urban growth causes to appearance many problems such as wasting environmental resources, inability of providing necessary services for citizens and unplanned growth. Urban mangers and planners need tools for understanding amount and size of future urban growths to prevent the...