Kasarda J D, Crenshaw E M
Annu Rev Sociol. 1991;17:467-501. doi: 10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.002343.
"Few aspects of international social change have generated as much scholarship as patterns of urbanization in the Third World. In this review of interdisciplinary research, we first trace the trends and dimensions of urbanization in developing countries and then discuss major theories guiding global urban studies. Second, we review and critique recent cross-national investigations of the determinants of urbanization and its dimensions, concluding that severe underspecification, the dearth of comparative statistics on critical dimensions, and the ambiguity of proxy variables hinder research in this area. Finally, we discuss issues that warrant additional investigation in the near future."
国际社会变革中，很少有方面能像第三世界的城市化模式那样引发如此多的学术研究。在这篇跨学科研究综述中，我们首先追溯发展中国家城市化的趋势和维度，然后讨论指导全球城市研究的主要理论。其次，我们回顾并批判了近期关于城市化决定因素及其维度的跨国调查，得出结论认为，严重的设定不足、关键维度比较统计数据的匮乏以及替代变量的模糊性阻碍了该领域的研究。最后，我们讨论了在不久的将来值得进一步调查的问题。
