What promotes a city to grow??

Question

What are the factors that promote city growth?? I need details about the factors ,with examples around the world. Can anyone give me a few websites or explain these factors???

Answer 1

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/...

that website does an awesome job at describing how a city grows, such as factors that go into it.

Sources of city growth:

http://www.unfpa.org/swp/1996/ch4.htm

City systems and world-systems:

http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/citemp...

City Growth:

http://jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...

I'll be looking for more, but wanted to post this one for now.

Answer 2

Economy. That's it. That's why people come and people leave.