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来源

URBAN STUDIES,Vol.54,Issue12,P.2818-2834

语言

英文

关键字

city size distribution; Hukou; urban development policy; Zipf's exponent Zipf's law; URBAN SYSTEM; CITIES; GROWTH; URBANIZATION; EVOLUTION

作者单位

[Fang, Li] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD USA. [Li, Peng] State Informat Ctr, Beijing, Peoples R China. [Song, Shunfeng] Univ Nevada, Reno, NV 89557 USA. [Song, Shunfeng] Nanjing Audit Univ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China. Song, SF (reprint author), Univ Nevada, Econ 030, Reno, NV 89557 USA. E-Mail: song@unr.edu

摘要

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's urban development policies have experienced dramatic changes, from anti-urbanisation before 1978, to anti-large-city-development during 1978-1999 and coordinated urbanisation in 2000-2012. Using city-level data from 1949 to 2012, this paper examines China's development policies and city size distribution. Evidenced by the Zipf coefficient, we found that China's city sizes became more evenly distributed before 2000, and this pattern was reversed after 2000. These findings suggest that China's urban system is strongly affected by its shifting urban development strategies.