A World of Cities: The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

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How would the COVID-19 pandemic reshape retail real estate and high streets through acceleration of E-commerce and digitalization? (2021, background): “Second, while income growth and urbanization tend to be highly correlated (Henderson, 2010), higher levels of urbanization are now also observed at low levels of income (Glaeser, 2014).”
Big or Small Cities? On city size and economic growth (2017, unknown): “…of city size, such as urban infrastructure, institutional capacity and industry composition, are increasingly regarded as more important determinants of whether a city can be judged as a motor for economic growth or not (Camagni, Capello, and Caragliu 2015; Castells-Quintana 2017; Glaeser 2014).”
The Rapid Urban Growth Triad: A New Conceptual Framework for Examining the Urban Transition in Developing Countries (2017, background): “However, unlike historical accounts in which the relationship between urban and economic growth proved strong, recent studies have demonstrated that this relationship in many developing countries has weakened [1,3,60,74].”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “Moreover, our consumption cities are distinct from the “consumer cities” of Glaeser et al. (2001).”
Career Incentives of City Leaders and Urban Spatial Expansion in China (2020, background): “Un co rre cte d P ro of I. Introduction RAPID urbanization has occurred in many developingcountries in recent decades (Glaeser, 2014).”