GEOG 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: International Business Times, Commuter Town, M People
22 Apr 2019
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China: no idea how many new cities are being built. Built on all levels national, sub-national. Use the same building over and over. No one can afford to live in new cities from geographically lopsided country with a few massive rich cities population and wealth more evenly distributed. * 300 m people will be urbanized state-driven urbanization relocate hundreds of millions of rural people. Officials are rewarded for urbanization, even when it"s all artificial get promoted. China"s national science & technology department terminology committee: Geographical term referring to an abandoned city with depleted resources, a high vacancy rate, few inhabitants, or that"s dark at night . International business times: prematurely built, underfunded, lost backing midway through . Shepard: a new development that is running at severe under-capacity, with drastically fewer people and business than there is available space for sees oversupply problems as temporary. What is a city in china? fundamental difference between definition of city in china and world.
