Urbanization Is Not Always Make Life Better

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The rise of numerous great city-State and decline, as the number of sand in the Ganges, and the protagonist is always unchanged. This ongoing contemporary China 30 years from bottom to top, the hustle and bustle of the city, perhaps, is the creation of human history the most massive influx of immigrants, but at the same time, the relationship between the city and the people, once again become the life of tension. Who bought our lives? urban space who rules the roost? life must acceleration? what is natural? urban cities better? urban cultural origin accompanied by Shanghai World Expo, "better city, better life" slogan is visible, discussions are also increasingly deepening, the "City" long trouble of editors, but also attempts to answer these questions.

2010 8 March to 1 April, the planning of contemporary cultural research network our city large network Better. Discuss issues with the book, the book's genre corresponds also quite another class. This book is the Shanghai University, Wang Professor of "hot air contemporary watch" one of the books by Michael Li Chen, cold tea and small illustrative examples together, the content originates from the contemporary Christian Louboutin cultural research network utilization of online discussions, combing the basic necessities of life in the city. At the same time, participants are also different backgrounds, everyone can raise their hands, white-collar workers, indigenous and foreign students, University teachers and the general public.

Pumping off the "Shanghai" which is a great background, the book also appeared in most modern cities. As someone has said, all of the home are in fact in the fall. With the advent of the modern, urban life, the more to relate to the public, in particular in China. According to the latest data, 2015, China's population will reach 14 million, more than half the people living in towns with a population of more than 1 million city will have 160, China became urbanized countries. At the same time, with the rapid influx of rural population, urban and rural areas with Chinese characteristics, the binary segmentation structure makes this trend are tragic and bizarre.

Urbanization is not always make life better. Over the past 30 years, and urbanization in China's economic development has become the most important driving force, but also many new predicament, typical as migrant workers, housing shortages, wage increases the gap between rich and poor, and so on. With your feet up every inch of the land in the city of Jane Jacobs said that all the urban development process in one of the core underlying component on the basis of the old work and create new jobs. At present, China's "Lewis inflection point participate possibilities increase, means that China's rural areas to cities continuously provide cheap labor time has passed, the demographic dividend and at the same time, economic down-cycle also means economy it both inside and outside the long-standing has been gradually intensifying, and urbanization in China to ensure a smooth transition to this stage of development, is vital.

The primary motivation of urbanization will undoubtedly come from the economy. American urban planning much female scholars Jane Jacobs in the urban economy, stressed: "farmers to be able to increase the income of the Christian Louboutin other reason is that, in industry and services in the development of the economies of scale. Economies of scale mean, in the city's development process, the improvement of people's income and the size of the cities. "According to the study of Jacobs, urbanization clearly facilitate national economy:" the most thorough agricultural countries, agricultural productivity is also the minimum, and urbanization in the most thorough State, the production of food must be.

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