University of Amsterdam | UVA · Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
20.28. University Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning Institutions and Politics
The Urban Drivers of Economic Growth
Planning scholars have for years studied and criticized the mechanisms of urban land transformation that drive national economic growth. Urbanization is not the consequence of economic growth but the actual driver of it. The enlargement of cities, their number of jobs, estates and infrastructures, is a driving force behind growth.
January 17, 2020