Chair
Anthony Champion (united Kingdom)

Membership
Graeme Hugo (Australia)
Alfredo Lattes (Argentina)

Council Liaison
Alan B. Simmons

IUSSP Secretariat Contact Person
Mary Ellen Zuppan

Terms of Reference

The underlying aim is to provide a basis for exploring the dynamics of urbanisation, with particular reference to the demographic components of urban growth. The principal objective is to formulate a new approach to studying urbanisation trends that takes account of the major changes in human settlement systems around the world. This is justified primarily in terms of the increasing blurring of the simple rural/urban dichotomy used traditionally for this purpose. It also intends to take advantage of new research opportunities allowed by the major improvements being made in small-area data availability and in the technical capabilities of computing and GIS processing.