Chapter 7: Transition 4: Modelling the emergence of cities

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Denise Pumain et al., « Chapter 7: Transition 4: Modelling the emergence of cities », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10670/1.7qo2e0


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Introduction: one or two ‘urban’ transitions? The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities, and the expansion of this form of habitat seems both universal and irreversible. The statistical services of the United Nations predict that, before the end of the twenty-first century, more than three-quarters of human beings will be urban-dwellers. Now, cities appeared in the history of humanity only about 6,000 years ago. With their emergence, which from the beginning situated cities w...

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