1 Introduction to Sustainable Urban and Rural Integration

Shengfeng Qin

DOI: 10.1201/9781032686691-1

1.1 The Rapid Urbanization and Sustainability Issues

Cities continue to attract people in search of a better life and greater job prospects and services. Urbanization is the process of more and more people living in towns and cities, mainly moved from rural areas (countryside), when towns and cities are still in developing stages, thus offering more opportunities for people’s development. The term migration is used to describe this truly global phenomenon with people movements both within nations (internal migration) and internationally across borders (international migration). The internal migration includes rural to urban, urban to urban, ...

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