1 China's urban population as a share of the total population is growing rapidly,2 and an additional 200 million rural-to-urban migrants are anticipated during the next 10 years.3 In 2011, the proportion of China's population classified as urban reached 51%, thereby overtaking the rural ...
Further, the data indicates a dispersed pattern of in situ urbanisation, with the reluctance of state policy to recognise new statutory towns partly responsible for the growth of new CTs. A growing share of India's urban population, living in these CTs, is being governed under the rural ...
In this regard, large positive and negative indicators are more and less favourable for the development of the system, respectively (Tang, 2015, Liu et al., 2018):(1)x′ij=xij-xminjxmaxj-xminj(2)x′ij=xmaxj-xijxmaxj-xminjwhere x′ ij is the standardised value of indicator j in...
It is suggested that, while the counter-urbanisation concept has been frequently used to describe rural in-migration movements, relatively little attention has been paid either to the significance of such movements for the settlement pattern (physical change, rural housing growth), or to the ...
been made of this by many local authorities and the media, because the growing number of urban gulls increases the likelihood of conflict between birds and humans, with associated public health impacts. For example, there is a significant chance of faecal contamination of urban water supplies (...
It is generally assumed ... D Sol,C González-Lagos,D Moreira,... - 《Ecology Letters》 被引量: 141发表: 2014年 The effect of urbanisation on avian morphology and latitudinal gradients in body size Urban areas occupy a large and growing proportion of the earth. Such sites exhibit ...
These settlements gave rise to Campina Grande, the most important cotton growing area in Brazil in the early 1900s and now the most important city in the agreste. Droughts are frequent and cause critical impacts in the region. The great drought of 1824–1828 resulted in the transformation of ...
Type of bed (left), amount of diurnal activity M10 (centre) and number of people sleeping in the same room (right) associated with the amount of nocturnal activity across both locations (Milange, red; Tengua, blue). Significance between groups is denoted by Bonferroni corrected post-hoc ...
Both are transport-oriented developments promoting mixed-use density and less car-dependency. According to documentation of the Shanghai municipality, Zhenru urban centre, which is currently in its planning phase, is supposed to become a 'new sustainable sub-centre for a growing metropolis'. Based...
The population growth rates in the core were growing faster than in the ring over the last decade. • With the exception of France this has resulted in population recentralisation. • There is some variation as to when the population turnaround happened, and national policy seems to have ...