Abstract
Urban–rural transformation geography is the systemic integration, comprehensive meta-synthesis and theoretical development of urban geography and rural geography. It is one of the innovations in the discipline of geography to meet the major national strategic needs of balancing urban and rural development and promoting urban–rural integration. As a subfield of geography, urban–rural transformation geography is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary subject, focuses on the urban–rural relationship regional system, aims at building urban–rural integration system to promote the optimization of urban–rural hierarchical structure and sustainable development, supports and serves the equal exchange of urban and rural elements, urban–rural integrated market construction, balanced allocation of urban and rural public resources and urban and rural spatial planning, systematically reveals the process, pattern, mechanism and effect of the evolution of urban–rural regional system.
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Liu, Y. (2021). Background and Value of Urban–Rural Transformation Research. In: Urban-Rural Transformation Geography. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4835-9_1
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