Pouyanne, Guillaume - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine novembre (2014) 4, pp. 587-611
Discontinuous (leapfrog) development is a kind of urban sprawl, defined as a lack of continuity in expansion. This article proceeds to make a survey of the theoretical explanations of leapfrog development. We follow a twofold explanation, in line with the two traditionnal conceptions of space in...