Abstract
This chapter focuses on introducing the population dynamics of the urbanization process, compared to the urban land dynamics that were reviewed in Chap. 3. After evaluating population changes at both country and city levels in Sects. 4.1 and 4.2, it assesses urban population changes compared to urban land use changes, revealing that, in contrast to western countries, urban population grew at a faster pace than land use change, leading to the increase in population density in most SENA cities outlined in Sect. 4.3. The chapter concludes in Sect. 4.4 with a look at two of the emerging types of communities in SENA urban landscapes—gated communities and informal settlements.
This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
–Plato.
What is a city but the people? True the people are the city.
–William Shakespeare.
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The activity space refers to “the spacetime context in which a person lives her or his daily life.” (Wang et al., 2012b, p. 257).
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Fan, P. (2022). Urban Population Dynamics. In: The Great Urban Transition. Landscape Series, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05957-5_4
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