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  2. Urbanization in China - Wikipedia

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    "Urbanisation in China", China's Chicago, July 26, 2007, Chongqing, The Economist - A giant city in the south-west is a microcosm of China's struggle to move millions from rural to urban areas. "Where Big Is Best" , May 26, 2008 Issue, Newsweek - The rise of megacities has created slums and chaos elsewhere, but in China, they are cleaner and ...

  3. Urban sprawl - Wikipedia

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    Measures for urban sprawl in Europe: upper left the Dispersion of the built-up area (DIS), upper right the weighted urban proliferation (WUP). The term urban sprawl was often used in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, [17] firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning the waste of agricultural land and landscape due to ...

  4. Urban society in China - Wikipedia

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    In China it was felt that marriage was appropriate only for those who have jobs and thus are in a position to be full members of society. Peasant youth, who have an automatic claim on a share of the collective fields and the family house, qualified, but college students or urban youths who are "waiting for assignment" to a lifetime job did not.

  5. Urban planning in China - Wikipedia

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    Urban Planning in China is currently characterized by a top-down approach, high density urban development and extensive urbanization. China's urban planning philosophies and practices have undergone multiple transitions due to governance and economic structure changes throughout the nation's extensive history.

  6. Megacity - Wikipedia

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    Areas constructed to capacity contribute to urban expansion. Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading outwards of a city and its suburbs to its outskirts to low-density, auto-dependent development on rural land, with associated design features that encourage car dependency. [49]

  7. Conurbation - Wikipedia

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    The ten largest urban centers in China. There are 3 well-known conurbations in China. [10] The Yangtze River Delta consisting of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Ningbo houses 150 million people and in 2016 it generated $2.76 trillion, 20 percent of China's national GDP. It is responsible for one-third of China's imports and exports. [11]

  8. Urban growth boundary - Wikipedia

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    An urban growth boundary (UGB) is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for urban development and the area outside be preserved in its natural state or used for agriculture. Legislating for an urban growth boundary is one way, among many ...

  9. Weighted urban proliferation - Wikipedia

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    They concluded that the degree of urban sprawl had increased by 155% between 1935 and 2002 and that, within the framework of modelling future scenarios, urban sprawl is likely to further increase by more than 50% by 2050 without abrupt mitigation measures. [6] Jaeger et al. (2015) analysed the degree of urban sprawl for 32 countries in Europe ...