A New Urbanization Land Change Continuum

Dear Colleagues,

Contemporary urbanization is a process that simultaneously involves changes in livelihoods, lifestyles, connectivity and land uses. The urban-rural dichotomy including a discrete place no longer holds. There is a need for a new conceptual framework of land change and urbanization that explicitly identifies how these two processes are connected and takes into consideration these changes looking for more or less blurring places – urban continuums – that are multiply coupled/connected (Boone et al., in press; Seto et al., 2012). The aim of this special issue is to explore cutting edge, state-of-the-art research that examines and visualizes how urbanization and land change are connected through space and across time. Prospective authors are invited to contribute to this Special Issue of Land by submitting an original manuscript of their latest research in this particular area. Contributions may include, but are not limited to:

• New methods and conceptualizations for characterizing urban continuums, couplings, and urban land teleconnections.
• Analytical methods for classifying and organizing land change related to urbanization, including multi-level modeling, spatially explicit life cycle analysis, multi-agent modeling, and spatializing commodity chains.
• Techniques for modeling and visualizing correlations across distant locations.
• Integration of land, economic, livelihood, and justice measurements to examine “urbanity”.
• Vivid empirical cases and examples from across the world populating the approaches and concepts of urbanization.

Prof. Dr. Karen C. Seto
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase
Guest Editor

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