URBAN SPRAWL BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL EVALUATION BASED ON CONTINENTS AND IN THE USA, CHINA AND INDIA

Urban sprawl has been an essential debate in terms of its consequences and association to sustainable urban development. Urban sprawl is a multifaceted phenomenon and therefore has very little mutual global agreement in defining characteristics and impacts or on the undesirability premises. Urban sprawl literature has been overwhelming in the past decade, which is believed to be associated with the increment of global urban sprawl, especially to the country with an established economy and with recently experienced enormous economic transformation. The purpose of this article is twofold: to examine the association of urban sprawl and urban sprawl literature according to continence, and to carry out statistical evaluation of urban sprawl in the USA, China and India, based on three contemporary high-impact journals.