“…Existing scholarship on urban growth uses biophysical factors, social factors, economic factors, and spatial policies as the drivers of urbanization (Li, Zhou, & Ouyang, 2013;Mondal, Das, & Bhatta, 2017;Poelmans & Van Rompaey, 2010;Shafizadeh-Moghadam & Helbich, 2015;Verburg, de Nijs, Ritsema van Eck, Visser, & de Jong, 2004). Both, locational and socio-demographic factors provide a measure of urban growth suitability and relative accessibility in a region.…”