Between human and economic agglomeration: the rationale for sustainable urban control
International Journal of Development Research
Between human and economic agglomeration: the rationale for sustainable urban control
Received 16th September, 2017; Received in revised form 21st October, 2017; Accepted 09th November, 2017; Published online 29th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Akindele O Akin. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Urbanization has been held culpable in environmental degradation but with a weak link and blurry understanding of the process. Against this background, this paper assumes a disparate argument on the critique of urbanization on the core of urban sustainability. From most treatises of urban studies, it has always been sustainability versus urbanization. However, agglomeration of economy has not existed without human agglomeration and sustainability has been argued to have economic dimensions. The case noted in this paper suggests that there is a need to understand the complex relationships between urbanization and sustainability; and we would see the resolve, finding expressions in spatiality.
