Using Hohhot and Ulaanbaatar as case studies, we developed a holistic approach to examine the socioeconomic and natural driving forces for urbanization and to investigate the impact on the urban environment.
In recent decades, the urban culture of the city has been changing with the forces of urbanization and globalization and the demand for new buildings and spaces.
But amid the pages and pages of names for wildflowers and farm implements, DARE, as the dictionary is commonly known, throws in enough newer terms to suggest that the state of regional English isn't quite as dire as laments about the homogenizing forces of urbanization, mass media and the Internet may suggest.
If the last century crashed into the forces of urbanization, fragmentation and world war, this one seems to be on an endless, murmuring skid.
Overall, as well as for urbanization, the economic driving forces, followed by political driving forces, are most important for landscape changes in all three periods.
In China, farmers are killing themselves daily to protest the government taking over their prime agricultural lands for urbanization.
For urbanization is inevitable, here in Mexico, around the globe, and especially in the developing world.
Although we adjusted for urbanization in this study, residual confounding may still exist.
Direct field observations identified real estate developers to be among the principal forces of urbanization-driven land cover change around the city's quechua zone: by constructing planned condominiums ("condominization") for an emerging middle class that demands environmental amenities (Fig. 5), as well as by boosting land prices and thus motivating peri-urban land owners to sell lots (Fig. 6).
