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Article: Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades
Title | Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades |
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Keywords | developing world greenspace low income population metropolitan area urban economy |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Nature Research (part of Springer Nature): Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html |
Citation | Nature Communications, 2020, v. 11 n. 1, p. article no. 5366 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The world has experienced dramatic urbanization in recent decades. However, we still lack information about the characteristics of urbanization in large cities throughout the world. After analyzing 841 large cities with built-up areas (BUAs) of over 100 km2 from 2001 to 2018, here we found an uneven distribution of urbanization at different economic levels. On average, large cities in the low-income and lower-middle-income countries had the highest urban population growth, and BUA expansion in the upper-middle-income countries was more than three times that of the high-income countries. Globally, more than 10% of BUAs in 325 large cities showed significant greening (P < 0.05) from 2001 to 2018. In particular, China accounted for 32% of greening BUAs in the 841 large cities, where about 108 million people lived. Our quantitative results provide information for future urban sustainable development, especially for rational urbanization of the developing world. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290883 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 14.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.887 |
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dc.contributor.author | Sun, L | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Q | - |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, D | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-02T05:48:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-02T05:48:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature Communications, 2020, v. 11 n. 1, p. article no. 5366 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-1723 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/290883 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The world has experienced dramatic urbanization in recent decades. However, we still lack information about the characteristics of urbanization in large cities throughout the world. After analyzing 841 large cities with built-up areas (BUAs) of over 100 km2 from 2001 to 2018, here we found an uneven distribution of urbanization at different economic levels. On average, large cities in the low-income and lower-middle-income countries had the highest urban population growth, and BUA expansion in the upper-middle-income countries was more than three times that of the high-income countries. Globally, more than 10% of BUAs in 325 large cities showed significant greening (P < 0.05) from 2001 to 2018. In particular, China accounted for 32% of greening BUAs in the 841 large cities, where about 108 million people lived. Our quantitative results provide information for future urban sustainable development, especially for rational urbanization of the developing world. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Nature Research (part of Springer Nature): Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Communications | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | developing world | - |
dc.subject | greenspace | - |
dc.subject | low income population | - |
dc.subject | metropolitan area | - |
dc.subject | urban economy | - |
dc.title | Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chen, J: jichen@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chen, J=rp00098 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-020-19158-1 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 33097712 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85093945477 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 318448 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 5366 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 5366 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000586507600005 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2041-1723 | - |