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Geographical Basis and Theoretical Analysis of Urban–Rural Transformation

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This chapter discusses the basic theories of urban–rural transformation geography, and puts forward four core concepts of urban–rural transformation to comprehensively understand the transformation of urban–rural development, i.e., “transformation tree”, “transformation law”, “transformation threshold” and “fusion body”. On this basis, the study of urban–rural transformation geography starts from the regional and comprehensive characteristics of geography, focuses on the “process, pattern, mechanism, problem, regulation” of urban–rural transformation, and takes solving urban–rural development problems and promoting urban–rural coordination as the guidance and the elements allocation, structural optimization and function upgrading of urban–rural system as the core. Further, it reveals the characteristics, types and regional differences of urban–rural transformation, and puts forward the paths and countermeasures to deepen the reform of the integration strategy, system and mechanism and governance system of urban and rural development based on following the laws and principles of urban and rural economic and social transformation.

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Liu, Y. (2021). Geographical Basis and Theoretical Analysis of Urban–Rural Transformation. In: Urban-Rural Transformation Geography. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4835-9_3

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