title: On the Nexus of the Spatial Dynamics of Global Urbanization and the Age of the City.
abstract: A number of concepts exist regarding how urbanization can be described as a process. Understanding this process that affects billions of people and its future development in a spatial manner is imperative to address related issues such as human quality of life. In the focus of spatially explicit studies on urbanization is typically a city, a particular urban region, an agglomeration. However, gaps remain in spatially explicit global models. This paper addresses that issue by examining the spatial dynamics of urban areas over time, for a full coverage of the world. The presented model identifies past, present and potential future hotspots of urbanization as a function of an urban area's spatial variation and age, whose relation could be depicted both as a proxy and as a path of urban development.
authors.affiliation: Landscape Ecology Lab, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scheuer
authors.affiliation: Landscape Ecology Lab, Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.|Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haase
authors.affiliation: Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Volk
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014506:Urban Renewal; D014507:Urbanization