City size distributions in China 1949 to 2010 and the impacts of government policies

Cities

Volumn 32, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Shangyi ^a   Dai, Juncheng ^a   Bu, Jianhua ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; City size distribution; Policies; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNMENT; POLICY REFORM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA;

EID: 84883555110     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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