DEFINING URBAN AND RURAL REGIONS BY MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUMS OF URBANIZATION

Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration

This chapter considers the literature on urbanization and migration to cities from rural areas in developing and middle-income countries. The chapter assesses recent patterns, discusses traditional models, addresses more recent models of migration, presents some of the recent findings from the micro-econometric literature, and closes with a discussion of the role of cities in economic growth. C...

Urbanization, Rural–urban Migration and Urban Poverty

Peri-urbanization: Zones of Rural-urban Transition

1. Peri-Urbanization 1.1. Drivers 1.2. Global Variants 1.3 What’s at Stake? 2. Peri-Urbanization in East Asia: Comparative Context 2.1. The Thai Model 2.2. The Philippine Model 3. Chinese Peri-Urbanization 3.1. Inter-Regional Variation 3.2. Dynamics of Chinese Peri-Urbanization 4. The Case of the Hangzhou–Ningbo Corridor 4.1. Key Characteristics 4.2. Emerging Outcomes 4.3. Peri-Urban Governance...

Defining Regions for Rural America

shape how we think. Regional definitions color the way we understand rural America, rural change, and rural prospects. Regional definitions trigger financial flows and program eligibility. At issue is not whether to opt into the region idea. We readily create regions to suit the human purposes of discovering order, appraising conditions, exercising control, prescribing change, and expressing id...

Scenario Analysis on Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration in China