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Urbanisation and migration in South Africa: global trends
Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer, a 19th-century Spanish intellectual and engineer, is credited with having coined and put into practice the concept of urbanisation. Cerdà reasoned and developed a theory on the expansion and development of cities, in essence the …