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Agriculture
This chapter interrogates the issue of urban agriculture (UA) which is defined as the cultivation of crops and rearing of animals within metropolitan...
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De-industrialisation, Urban Governance Challenges and Deteriorating Urban Infrastructure in Norton, Zimbabwe: Is the Town Ruralising?
This chapter is based on a medium-sized Zimbabwean town that is under rapid urbanisation and experiencing numerous urban challenges. It explores how...
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Governing Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities: Contestations and Struggles from Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
Food is a critical basic human need affecting different urban life facets. Its contribution to urban health cannot be understated, especially...
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The CPC’s Urban Thought Exploration
Starting from the early leaders of the Communist Party of China Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu to the CPC Central Committee with General Secretary **...
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Urban Farming and Land Use Governance in Metro Manila
Land use dilemmas brought about by rapid urban growth present complex challenges in urban governance toward sustainable and inclusive cities. To this...
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Agriculture in African Industrialisation and the Role of China
This chapter notes that Chinese development assistance to Africa’s agriculture is marginal in comparison with assistance provided to other economic...
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Towards Urban Degrowth? Urban Planning as a Common Thread of Contradictory Dynamics in Cities
Across recent decades, the numerous social, economic, and environmental changes occurring within urban spaces have moved the discipline of Urban...
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Urban–Urban Disparities
This chapter further develops the paradigmatic perspectives presented in the introductory chapter by sketching out the semiotics of state policy....
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Unplugging the Matrix: Bridging the Urban–Rural Gap
Agricultural revolutions typically symbolize unfolding modernization, yet how they divide rural and urban lifestyles crucially needs socio-cultural...
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Rural–Urban Linkages
Relations and interaction between rural and urban areas continue to attract attention among policy makers, researchers, and academicians the world...
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Political behaviour in France: the impact of the rural–urban divide
The debate on the existence and relevance of a rural–urban divide in France has been revived in recent years. This article reviews studies showing...
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Urban Transition in Monsoon Asian Megacity: Will Paddy Fields in the Rural–Urban Fringe Persist? Insight from Jakarta-Bandung Mega Urban Region, Indonesia
Megacity emerges as urbanization occurs beyond the urban core towards adjacent peri-urban and rural regions. Unlike megacities in other parts of the...
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Labor Force Transfer and Reinforce Agriculture Competitiveness
Whether Chinese agriculture can improve competitiveness in the international market and how should it improve competitiveness is a major issue...
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Improving Climate Resilience of Urban Road Infrastructure in Southeast Asia
Road infrastructure plays an important role in overall national socio-economic development. Climate change poses an increasing risk to urban roads,...
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Construction of Urban Development Models in the PRC
Just as China’s reform and opening-up enters the critical stage, the urban development is also confronted with the most difficult test and choice....
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Exploring Innovative and Sustainable Financing of Agriculture in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic
The land reform programme in Zimbabwe began in 1980 following the signing of the 1979 Lancaster House agreement, targeting a more equitable land...
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Urban Food Production as an Embedded Practice
This third chapter in Part III expands an attempt to draw conclusions, yet solutions remain without resolution. Within a multidimensional narrative...
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Urbanization and Urban Climate in High-Density Cities
Cities exert a strong control on climate at all scales from the street to the planet. At the scale of the city, the replacement of natural cover with...
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Urban-Rural Development and Planning Innovation
This chapter will further go into urban-rural development problem from the perspective of planning technology. For years, China has formulated a full...