Urban population, urban land area, and urban population density in Southeast Asia are all increasing at a fast rate and the levels of urban primacy are high in most countries. Urban growth in Southeast Asia contributes to economic development and more so at higher levels of urbanization. This ...
Vietnam's most populous urban center and main business center, Ho Chi Minh City, was sinking annually at an average of 0.2 millimeters, the highest rate revealed in the study's survey of satellite data from 48 large coastal cities around the world. Some cities in South and Southeast Asia ...
For many observers, however, the greatest concern is surely the massive increase in the numbers of the urban poor. Available data suggest that in a large number of the world's poorest countries, the proportion of urban poor is increasing faster than the overall rate of urban population growth...
In Figure 3 the log of national urban population is an increasing concave function of the log of income per capita, indicating the growth rate of urban population is a concave increasing function of income levels [Davis and Henderson (2003)]. Sign in to download full-size image Figure 3. ...
Over the past four decades, economic transformation in Asia has been sustained and progressed in what has been characterized as a flying-geese pattern, with Japan leading the way (Yamazawa 1990). Table 1 shows that between 1970 and 2005, the average annual growth rate of the GDP of most ...
ZHAO six months are regarded as residents of that place and used toward the calculation of its urbanization rate. According to the official data, the number of Dali's residents increased by approximately 2% from 2012 to 2017. This increase does not reflect the actual number of lifestyle ...
(in which the document was in force and not updated at the same time) covered 2.0 million ha, of which single-family development accounted for about 90%. Thus, if one were to assume a demographic absorption rate of 40 persons/ha for these single-family development sites, this would give ...
our research is to develop a methodological approach that is appropriate for direct transfer and diffusion to other cities and regions, specifically to the newly flourishing cities in Africa and Asia, which have seen similar patterns of growth, but have not reached the urbanization rate of Mexico....
This report argues that urbanization has been a significant determinant of poverty reduction and progress in other MDGs (World Bank and IMF 2013). Countries that experience a higher rate of urbanization (e.g., the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and countries in East Asia and Latin ...
Borys, R. D., D. H. Lowenthal, S. A. Cohn, and W. O. J. Brown, 2003: Mountaintop and radar measurements of anthropogenic aerosol effects on snow growth and snowfall rate.Geophys. Res. Lett.,30, 1538,https://doi.org/10.1029/2002GL016855. ...