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Urbanization is the both the result of the social and economic development and the essential trend of history. The time of beginning of urbanization of China is later than that of European countries, which started in late period of 19th century. Until now, the speed of urbanization is slow and the development is imbalanced in China. Nowadays, the urbanization of China is in the period of acceleration...
Aim for the utilizing features of road crossing facilities in different cities, we select four cities in different regions, Shanghai, Chongqing, Xining and Harbin, to investigate the utilization of pedestrian crossing facilities. We choose usage rate of crosswalk, pedestrian violation rate of signalized intersection and saturation rate of pedestrian interchange as the evaluation index to describe...
To a large extent, developing economies often rely upon agricultural exports in their economic development. The international trade of such products is heavily influenced by price and quality. The value and competitiveness of such products in the global market is also influenced by various value-added activities. As the nodal point along the supply chain, it is hypothesized that dry ports play significant...
Industrial parks and zones have become a new growth pole of economic development of Jiangxi Province. Further promoting specialized industrial parks and zones and improving their development environment can not only promote the overall uplifting of comprehensive strength and competitiveness of enterprises in these parks and zones, but also improve the quality and level of business and capital invitation...
The key of Overall Reform Pilot Experiment of Building Resources-conserved and Environment-friendly Society in Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan Mega-polis lies in eco-transition of industries based on recycling economy. Its long-term objective is to work out various deep-rooted institutional and mechanism obstacles as increasing contradictions between economic & social development and resources &...
Regional land use change has been and will continue to be one of the hugest human impacts on the environment. Based on eight remotely sensed images of Guiyang city from 1973 to 2001, this paper studies the effect of urban sprawl on the land use and land cover of Guiyang in recent three decades. The process and characteristics of urban expansion and the surrounding land use change were analyzed. Besides,...
The rapid growth in urbanization and motorization generally contributes to an urban transportation system that is economically, environmentally and socially unsustainable. The result has been a relentless increase in traffic congestion. Road congestion pricing has been proposed many times as an economic measure to fight congestion in urban traffic, but has not seen widespread use in practice because...
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