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Contents: - Foreword: UN Habitat - Elkin Velasquez - Introduction - A worldwide view on urbanization: Denise Pumain & Celine Rozenblat 1- A new Urban theory for comparing urban systems 1.1 An Evolutionary theory of Urban Systems - Denise Pumain 1.2 Urban systems between national and global: recent reconfiguration through transnational networks - Celine Rozenblat 1.3 Preliminary typology of cities and systems of cities - Celine Rozenblat & Denise Pumain 2- Metropolization in countries where urban transition is achieved 2.1 The United States Urban System: From colonial settlements to global urban centers, an original trajectory - Anne Bretagnolle, University Paris 1, Celine Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, University of Reims, Kim Sukkoo, Washington University in Saint Louis 2.2 The Canadian Urban System: Urban Canada Goes Global - Larry Bourne, University of Toronto and Jim Simmons, University of Toronto 2.3 Metropolization and polycentrism in the European Urban system - Celine Rozenblat, Denise Pumain 2.4 Changes in the Japanese urban system since the 1950s: Urbanization, demography, and the management function - Kazutoshi Abe, Aichi University, Tomoko Kubo, Gifu University and Nobuhiko Komaki, Aichi University. 3. Advanced urban transition in emergent economies 3.1 The South American Urban System: Primacy, urban concentration and emerging morphologies - Luis Mauricio Cuervo, ECLAC/ILPES, Santiago de Chile, Rosa Moura, IPEA/PDPD, Brasilia 3.2 The Brazilian urban system: specialization and regional development - Antonio-Cosmo Ignazzi UMR Geographie-Cites, Paris, Reinaldo Paul Perez Machado, University of Sao Paulo 4 Rapid urban transition: towards integrated urban systems 4.1 The Chinese Urban system: between multi-level political evolution and economic transition - Elfie Swerts, University of Lausanne, Liao Liao, University of Aix-Marseille 4.2 Diffuse urbanization and mega urban regions in India: between reluctant and restrictive urbanism? - Eric Denis, UMR Geographie-Cites, Paris, Elfie Swerts, University of Lausanne, Partha Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Policy research, New Delhi 4.3 The Russian urban system: evolution engaged with transition - Clementine Cottineau, CASA, University College London, Irina Slepukhina, IRL, Leipzig 4.4 The South African Urban System: Coming to terms with the legacy of social control and exclusion? - Solene Baffi, UMR Geographie-Cites, Paris, Ivan Turok, Human Science Research Council, Cape Town, Celine Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, University of Reims 5 Different stages of urban transition in low middle income countries 5.1 Urbanization in Africa: Trends, regional specificities and challenges - Francois Paul Yatta, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, UCLGA, Niger 5.2 The Sustainability of Urbanization in Africa’s Great Lakes Region: Trends and Policies Options - Remy Sietchiping, Claude Ngomsi, Michael Kinyanjui, John Omwamba, UN Habitat - Nairobi, Elkin Velasquez, UN Habitat - Rio de Janeiro 5.3 Extended Metropolitan Development in Southern Asia: from primate cities to territorial urban diffusion - Charles Goldblum, University Paris 8, Dr Wong Tai Chee, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, China Conclusion: Multi-scale urban systems’ processes and policies -Celine Rozenblat & Denise Pumain