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Urbanization is the both the result of the social and economic development and the essential trend of history. The time of beginning of urbanization of China is later than that of European countries, which started in late period of 19th century. Until now, the speed of urbanization is slow and the development is imbalanced in China. Nowadays, the urbanization of China is in the period of acceleration...
This paper outlines the trajectory of international planning and design practice in China, focusing on the post-reform era, and challenges and problems that manifested. It shows the initial focus on new concepts and material consideration of space in inviting international practice, and the recent local concerns of a more environmentally and culturally sensitive practice. The paper highlights the...
China's urbanization process has been accelerated since the Reform and Opening-up. Although it makes a lot of successes, it also brings some problems which affected China's economic and society's sustainable development. China's special national conditions and development stage determine the complexity of China's urbanization process. In this article, we focus on causes of the Delay-urbanization and...
The 21st century is the critical period that the development strategy of urbanization of China to implement, urbanization's success is a direct impact on the healthy economic and social development of China, but the accelerating urbanization causes a severe challenge to the sustainable development. The eastern coastal regions' economic development is the most rapid one of China, and its urbanization...
As a central city in the western area of China and the upriver area of Yangtse, Chongqing has been endowed with many preferential policies by government. This paper tries to develop two kinds of mode suitable for Chongqing to develop urban-rural balanced bidirectional logistic system, which may be helpful to change the dual structure and hence harmonize the development of the urban and the rural....
In order to provide some new development ideas for intra-county economy in different levels of China, the development experiences of intra-county from the developed countries can be referred according to the development characteristics of intra-county economy in China. Then the ideas and countermeasures are drawn by using these experiences. Finally, the effectiveness of the countermeasures can be...
The emergence and growth of global city-regions (GCRs) or mega-city region (MCRs) around the world has become an important phenomenon. In China's Pearl River Delta, the area in the very South-East which incorporates Hong Kong and Guangzhou has seen 30 years of extremely rapid economic growth and urbanization, turning the many agglomerations into one super-large urbanized zone, a real MCR. Bit the...
Pearl River Delta is an export-oriented and rapidly urbanized region which is closely integrated with the global economic system. A preliminary conclusion was obtained based on the analysis of the present regional planning system of the Pearl River Delta. There was a mismatch between the two parallel subjects of the regional traffic network and the eco-environment protection. Three improvement measures...
China has experienced a noteworthy phenomenon among migrant farmers characterized by their moving in the form of families since 1990s.It is meaningful to help migrant farmer families, especially settling down ones including couples with their children,integrate into urban life for breaking down the two categories urban-rural system in China, improving urban harmonious development and constructing...
This paper presents the empirical analysis and research on the regional difference of urban residents' consumption structure in china based on generalized main composition and clustering analysis. First introduces 8 resident's urban consumptive indices from 31 provinces and cities to the log ratio analysis which is one of the generalized main compositions in order to bring out a comprehensive index...
The Rural-urban Economic Integration (abbr. REI) is becoming a theme in the 21st century in China, and the reform of Enlarging Powers to County (abbr. EPC) becomes one of effective approaches of promoting the development of REI. The reform can boost intra-county economies development by improving enthusiasm, enhancing decision-making efficiency, hastening fluxion of factors between city and county...
Marketing explores how to use "market" to attain win-win results of the two sides in exchange activities. Human beings neglect that environment promotes human society development. That caused conflicts between urban development and environment protection. The experiences of Overseas Chinese Town, China, proved that employing the concept of environment marketing in developing management can...
This paper analyzes the difference between traditional urban management mode and modern urban governance mode. It further discusses the characteristics of western urban governance, that is, advocating empowerment, emphasizing multi-governance system, focusing on process guiding and regional guiding in decision-making. Reasons for the changes in urban governance are further discussed in this paper,...
Using four classified Landsat images and two vector land use map that covered the study area, the change of urban land use, urban land patterns, and urban land intensity were quantized. After urban expansion analysis, changes of landscape pattern were then quantified by a series of landscape metrics. Additionally, two indices, IULU and LOE, were proposed by us to evaluate the sustainable efficiency...
Rural Urbanization is a process of the transfer of the rural population to cities and towns and the change of the rural economy into urban economy. Urbanization is a major issue for the social and economic development of China in the new era. This paper mainly describes the development history, current situation and development models of rural urbanization in China, focus on analyzing the problems...
The MICE industry, tourism and real estate are called the three pillar industries of urban development. The MICE industry is the first choice for urban development around the world. In China, the MICE industry is still at the initial stage, so it can't develop orderly and healthily without Government's guidance and support. While facing the main problems of the current government's behaviors, it must...
Under the background of global economic crisis, more and more local governments regard city marketing as a significant mode for urban development so as to strengthen urban competitiveness for more external development resources. However, since the social economic system of China is currently in a transitional period, decentralization, marketization and globalization urge the local governments to bear...
Micro-location is the key factor to determine the value of urban housing. In view of the practical situation of researches on the selection of China's urban residential micro-location, this paper analyzes the factors affecting the selection of urban residential micro-location, sets up evaluation index system and puts forward evaluation procedure with the tool of combining linearity method with entropy...
The central place theory is the classical theory in the urban geography field as well as the rank-size rule. The Zipf's law is the important practical formula to describe the rank-size rule, but there are still some problems when the Zipf's formula is used in urban system's size distribution, such as experiential discussions more than theoretical studies and the theoretical values far different from...
Nowadays, many Chinese second tier cities are developing rapidly based on the development of manufacturing Industry, forming the industry structure: the manufacturing industry is parallel with the primary tier city, but the modern service industry is mainly depended on the primary tier city. This paper systemically describes the characteristics and contributing of modern service industry with the...
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