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measures to promote comprehensive development in rural China. The fundamental purpose is to accomplish integrated urban … level in China is assessed by the principal component analysis of selected variables which represent the socioeconomic … and IURD at provincial level in China in the period 1980-2010. The analysis also controls variables such as locational …
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contribute to Chinese urbanization. Finally, we show that better institutions in Concessions facilitated the emergence of modern … road networks in Chinese cities that persist today and contribute to Chinese urbanization. …
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Most scholars in urban studies, public policy and public administration support city living, that is, they (usually implicitly) suggest that people are happy in cities or at least they focus on how to make people happy in cities. Planners also largely focus on making cities happy places, e.g.,...
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This paper seeks to contribute to the debate on the impact of the adoption of information technologies (ICT) in poverty reduction by understanding how the poor obtain, share and use ICT on their everyday life - what we call the informational lives of the poor. It identifies the opportunities and...
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The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...
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This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in the urban hierarchy in terms of relative sizes of cities and their functions onomic geography. We work backwards in a racetrack economy with eight cities in a long-run equilibrium. Initial distribution of population is chosen...
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