Two main causes are stated to explain the rapid growth of urban areas: the urbanization process and the growing standard of living. The article deals with the problem of what is really meant by urban land and compares how fast urban land is growing
in Norway in relation to other countries. The article also points out the great variations in the use of land for urban purposes, some of which are discussed. (JH).
Number of urban and other localities and their population (1981), age composition (population by major age group in urban and rural localities), illiteracy and school attainment (school qualifications), activity (population by activity and rate
activity by sex in urban and other localities in 1981).
Urban growth under conditions of unbalanced urban development
This paper points to symptoms of unbalanced growth of the urban region of Warsaw in the period of accelerated growth prior to 1975 and the subsequent economic collapse around 1980, illustrated with selected problems of the growth rate of employment
, population and housing. Effects of a policy of controlling urban growth at a time of labor and housing shortages.
The results of the 1981 population census show a great increase in the number of urban localities: list of urban localities according to the number of inhabitants at the time of the 1981 census, table of urban localities by size in 1981, table
of the degree of urban concentration in 1981, maps of towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants in 1948 and 1981, analysis of the situation in the Republics and Autonomous Provinces.
Stedelijk dynamiek in Nederland. (Urban dynamism in the Netherlands)
A sketch is given of the phases in the urban development. For 23 urban regions a phase determination has been given. The three different phases are: urbanisation, suburbanisation and desurbanisation. (AGD).
This book is divided in two parts. The first part considers the historical geography of the urban development in the Netherlands since the Golden Age. The main themes are urban functions, the urban-rural relations and the urban transportation
network. In the second part the author analyses the urban spatial organisation in the twentieth century with attention to problems of city classification, tertiary functions, city regions, spatial behavior of individuals enterprises and organisations
, the urban hierarchical networks and the urban system on a regional scale. (AGD).
Urbanisierung als sozialgeographischer Prozess-dargestellt am Beispiel südbayerischer Regionen Urbanization as a social-geographical process, described on the example of southern Bavarian regions
The study ries, from a social geographic point of view, to see the process of urbanization as part of the spatial development processes of human settlements, to explain it theoretically, and to show its regional differences empirically
. As a starting point, the attempt is made to define the geographic term town (urban settlement) in a new, social geographic way, namely as a human settlement, where the typical characteristics and development trends of the industrial society show themselves
in a relatively strong and distinct way and gain spatial relance. The totality of characteristics and ways of behaviour typical for urban settlements is called urbanity, their spreading in the sense of a diffusion process from this innovation centre
is urbanization. This diffusion process of urban ways of behaviour takes place in fields of different intensity, where we can find more or less urbanized settlements in a rural-urban continuum. The empiric studies proved the supposition that the urbanization
process does not take the same course in all settlements, but is composed of process components developing themselves with different degrees of intensity. In order to get types of urbanization, all possible combinations of eight components with three
degrees each were tested. After eliminating those types not existing in our area and reducing the nomber of types very similar to each other, eleven settlement types of urbanization were found. (HSC).