Full Citation

Title: 21 Urban and Spatial Demography

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2019

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10910-3_22

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: The spectacular growth of urban areas and the rise of large scale urban systems are prominent features of the contemporary spatial distribution of population. A century ago few individual countries were majority urban; in the past decade the world’s population crossed that threshold and is trending toward even higher levels of urbanization. This chapter reviews the macro-level features of urban systems and the micro-level spatial patterns of land use and residential distributions within urban areas. It addresses macro-level questions such as: Why do cities exist?, Why are cities located where they are found?, Why do cities vary in size and direction and magnitude of growth?, Why are cities embedded in hierarchically organized systems? It also addresses micro-level questions such as: How does land use vary spatially within urban areas and why? and What are the patterns and determinants of differential residential distribution and segregation of social groups in urban space?

Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-10910-3_22

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Fossett, Mark; Crowell, Amber R.

Editors: Dudley L. Poston Jr.,

Pages: 555-598

Volume Title: Handbook of Population

Publisher: Springer

Publisher Location: Cham

Volume:

Edition:

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography

Countries: