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MEGA-CITY, EXTENDED METROPOLITAN REGION, DESAKOTA, AND EXO-URBANIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION

MEGA-CITY, EXTENDED METROPOLITAN REGION, DESAKOTA, AND EXO-URBANIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION Abstract There is an obvious (rend that the number and size of large cities have been increasing in the past. The trend seems to remain in the future, particularly so in the Third World. The concentration of population and non-agricultural activities around major urban cores have led to the growth of Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMR) and Metropolitan Interlocking Regions (MIR) in many developing Asian countries. Polarization forces have favoured concentration of growth in these nations' key cities, yet diseconomies of scale and congestion have led to increasing dispersal of some of such growth into these cities' immediate neighbouring rural areas. These former rural areas which are rapidly urbanizing have become a rural-urban transition zone or Desakota Area of the EMR or MIR. In the case of the Pearl River Delta MIR, growth in the past two decades has been driven largely by foreign investment and urbanization under such has been labeled as exo-urbanization by Sit and Yang (1997). This exo-urbanization, together with the concepts of EMR, MIR and Desakota will be reviewed and the paper also introduces the rest of the special collection which has been presented in a 1996 conference on the rural-urban transitional zones in China. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Geographer Taylor & Francis

MEGA-CITY, EXTENDED METROPOLITAN REGION, DESAKOTA, AND EXO-URBANIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION

Sit, Victor F.S.
Asian Geographer , Volume 15 (1-2): 14 – Jan 1, 1996
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MEGA-CITY, EXTENDED METROPOLITAN REGION, DESAKOTA, AND EXO-URBANIZATION: AN INTRODUCTION

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Abstract There is an obvious (rend that the number and size of large cities have been increasing in the past. The trend seems to remain in the future, particularly so in the Third World. The concentration of population and non-agricultural activities around major urban cores have led to the growth of Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMR) and Metropolitan Interlocking Regions (MIR) in many developing Asian countries. Polarization forces have favoured concentration of growth in these...
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Abstract

Abstract There is an obvious (rend that the number and size of large cities have been increasing in the past. The trend seems to remain in the future, particularly so in the Third World. The concentration of population and non-agricultural activities around major urban cores have led to the growth of Extended Metropolitan Regions (EMR) and Metropolitan Interlocking Regions (MIR) in many developing Asian countries. Polarization forces have favoured concentration of growth in these nations' key cities, yet diseconomies of scale and congestion have led to increasing dispersal of some of such growth into these cities' immediate neighbouring rural areas. These former rural areas which are rapidly urbanizing have become a rural-urban transition zone or Desakota Area of the EMR or MIR. In the case of the Pearl River Delta MIR, growth in the past two decades has been driven largely by foreign investment and urbanization under such has been labeled as exo-urbanization by Sit and Yang (1997). This exo-urbanization, together with the concepts of EMR, MIR and Desakota will be reviewed and the paper also introduces the rest of the special collection which has been presented in a 1996 conference on the rural-urban transitional zones in China.

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Asian Geographer – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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