Urban Growth in Developing Countries: A Review of Current Trends and a Caution Regarding Existing Forecasts

By B. Cohen. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. D. Potts
2. P. Bocquier
3. Karen C. Seto
4. Burak Güneralp
5. Antonio Estache
6. K. Farrell
7. R. Bhagat
8. R. Marshall

In Urban Studies

1. D. Potts
2. P. Bocquier
3. K. Farrell
4. Antonio Estache
5. Burak Güneralp
6. Karen C. Seto
7. R. Bhagat
8. R. Marshall

Citations in the corpus

• The Rapid Urban Growth Triad: A New Conceptual Framework for Examining the Urban Transition in Developing Countries (2017, background): “Consequently, many tend to make the common mistake of assuming that the urban transition is a ubiquitous process, driven solely by rural to urban migration [3,5,9,45].”
• Challenging the Myths of Urban Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Evidence from Nigeria (2012, background): “Nigeria’s total and urban population is such a significant element of sub-Saharan Africa’s – in the same way that China’s population is for the world (see Cohen 2004) - that analysis of these urban phenomena for the region as a whole requires that efforts are made to assess what has been happening…”
• EMERGING PATTERN OF URBANIZATION AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF MIGRATION IN URBAN GROWTH IN INDIA (2009, background): “Not surprisingly therefore, the pace of urban change in the South Asian region has been relatively modest, yet urbanization presents enormous challenges due to the extreme poverty and the pressure on urban services that it has brought about (Cohen 2004 ).”
• Current Debates on Infrastructure Policy (2007, positive): “19 See Ravallion (2002) and Cohen (2004) for a discussion of population trends. 20 This is not a new debate. Almost 30 years ago, Lipton (1977) and Mellor (1976) were concerned with the opposite question: was the urban bias of the international community rational?”
• Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools (2012, background): “Class Amphibia EN+CR 507 139 (27) 26 (5) 15 (3) EN 208 54 (26) 8 (4) 5 (2) CR 299 85 (28) 18 (6) 10 (3) Aves EN+CR 199 25 (13) 5 (3) 2 (1) EN 94 11 (12) 3 (3) 0 (0) CR 105 14 (13) 2 (2) 2 (2) Coniferopsida EN+CR 26 3 (12) 0 (0) 0 (0) EN 13 3 (23) 0 (0) 0 (0) CR 13 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) Mammalia EN+CR 16”
• Systems approaches to integrated solid waste management in developing countries. (2013, background): “4), as countries and even individual cities struggle to be competitive in the global marketplace (Cohen, 2004).”
• Agglomeration Index : Towards a New Measure of Urban Concentration (2010, neutral): “Cohen (2004) summarizes the issues stemming from the limitations in the UN data: Although invaluable to those interested in studying urban change, the data in the UN report are somewhat deceptive in their apparent completeness and there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misreporting by…”
• A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010 (2015, neutral): “Comparing urban populations has also been notoriously dif fi cult due to differences in census timing, data availability/quality, and most critically, the considerable variability in how cities are de fi ned, whether by population threshold, functional area, or administrative boundaries (Cohen 2004).”
• Infrastructure: A survey of recent and upcoming issues (2006, background): “30 See Ravallion (2002) and Cohen (2004) for a discussion of population trends. 31 This is not a new debate. Almost 30 years ago, Lipton (1977) and Mellor (1976) were concerned with the opposite question: was the urban bias of the international community rational?”
• WORLD URBANIZATION PROSPECTS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE UN MODEL OF PROJECTION COMPATIBLE WITH URBAN TRANSITION THEORY 1 (2005, positive): “Among the most recent works that build on this literature, B. Cohen (2004) offers the most up-to-date and concise evaluation of the UN forecasts focusing on less developed countries (LDC) and is actually summarizing the work published in more details by the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in a…”
• Urbanization in developing countries: Current trends, future projections, and key challenges for sustainability (2006, background): “Although this UN publication is an invaluable resource for those interested in studying urban change, the data in the report are somewhat deceptive in their apparent completeness and there is some degree of uncertainty about what these data mean and how they should be reported [6].”