Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Dramatic uneven urbanization of large cities throughout the world in recent decades

  • Liqun Sun,
  • Ji Chen,
  • Qinglan Li,
  • Dian Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19158-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Urban development has dramatically increased in recent decades. Analyzing 841 large cities throughout the world for the period from 2001 to 2018, the authors disclosed uneven features of global urbanization in terms of urban expansion, population growth, and greening at different economic levels.