Urbanization and Settlement Systems: International Perspectives
二十二位专家分析了各自国家的城市聚落变化，涵盖北美、南美、西欧、东欧、日本、亚洲和北非，聚焦增长、当前结构和动态，并探讨政策应对与未来更高效公平的聚落设计。
Urbanization is a global phenomenon, involving a transformation of society and its settlement patterns. In this volume, twenty-two experts show the diversity of that phenomenon as they analyse the urban settlement of their native countries. The papers in this volume document the changing settlement patterns of countries representing North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, Asia, and North Africa. The focus of each paper is growth, current structure, and current dynamics of systems of urban settlements. The contributors examine the varied policy reponses to urbanization and to the problems of particular settlements among individual countries, as well as the prospects for designing more efficient and equitable settlement in the future. Students and scholars of geography, planning, urban studies and regional development; practitioners in planning, design, and development work; government officials; urban planners.