1541. Supersized cities: China's 13 megalopolises
- Publication Date:
- 07-2012
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Abstract:
- The rise and decline of great cities past was largely based on their ability to draw the ambitious and the restless from other places. China's cities are on the rise. Their growth has been fuelled both by the large-scale internal migration of those seeking better lives and by government initiatives encouraging the expansion of urban areas. The government hopes that the swelling urban populace will spend more in a more highly concentrated retail environment, thereby helping to rebalance the Chinese economy towards private consumption.
- Topic:
- Communism, Demographics, Development, Economics, Migration, and Urbanization
- Political Geography:
- China and Israel