List of Illustrations ix
Foreword, Gregory K. Ingram xv
INTRODUCTION AND FOUR PROPOSITIONS 1
CHAPTER 1: Coming to Terms with Global Urban Expansion 2
CHAPTER 2: The Inevitable Expansion Proposition 20
CHAPTER 3: The Sustainable Densities Proposition 28
CHAPTER 4: The Decent Housing Proposition 40
CHAPTER 5: The Public Works Proposition 56
PART ONE: THE URBANIZATION PROJECT 75
CHAPTER 6: Urbanization in Historical Perspective 76
CHAPTER 7: The Geography of World Urbanization 96
CHAPTER 8: The Global Hierarchy of Cities 110
PART TWO: THE STUDY OF GLOBAL URBAN EXPANSION 133
CHAPTER 9: The Evidence: New Maps, New Metrics, Old Theory 134
CHAPTER 10: Global Urban Land Cover and Its Expansion 156
CHAPTER 11: The Persistent Decline in Urban Densities 170
CHAPTER 1 2: From Centrality to Dispersal 186
CHAPTER 1 3: The Fragmentation of Urban Landscapes 204
CHAPTER I 1 : The Pulsating Compactness of Urban Footprints222
CHAPTER 1 5: Urban Land Cover Projections, 2000-2050 248
CHAPTER I 6: Urban Expansion and the Loss of Cultivated Lands264
CONCLUSION 283
CHAPTER 1 7: Making Room for a Planet of Cities 284
Acknowledgments 307
References 311
Photograph Credits 327
Index 331
About the Author 341
About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 343