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Journal Call no.G1.A83
AuthorLiu, Junde.
Article TitleRural-urban transition and urban growth in Shanghai / Liu Junde and Peng Zaide.
Is Part OfAsian geographer : a geographical journal on Asia and the Pacific Rim ; v.15, no.1 & 2, 1996, p.106-113, illus.
AbstractThe article analyses the characteristics, mechanisms and development model of rural-urban transition in Shanghai's suburb in the light of general theory of rural-urban transition in urban dynamics. It puts forward countermeasures of coordinated development in order to solve some problems in the transition. It is the economic-social development process of urban dynamics in rural areas, which causes rural-urban transition. There are some special characteristics to be studied and some problems to be solved in Shanghai's suburbs, the biggest economic centre of China.