Spatial Patterns and Driving Factors of Modern Urban-Rural System

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite researchers from a variety of disciplines, such as urban planning, human geography, social sciences, economics, environmental sciences, and other related disciplines, to submit papers to this Special Issue titled “Spatial Patterns and Driving Factors of Modern Urban-Rural Systems”. The relationship between urban and rural areas is the most basic economic and social relationship. The solution to urban and rural problems directly affects the methods and results of national structural transformation. After experiencing rapid urbanization, developed Western countries have quickly completed de-agriculture and de-peasantization through farmers going to cities to become workers. The studies on the relationship between urban and rural areas in the Western disciplines of architecture, geography, economics, and urban planning provide theoretical references for forming the idea of a new era of urban-rural integration. International scholars have conducted in-depth theoretical analyses and empirical research on the relationship between urban and rural, have measured integration development, and have formed urban and rural relation theory. The existing literature provides a theoretical and methodological basis for coordinating urban and rural development and for realizing urban and rural co-prosperity. Thus, we need to consider this fact and use scientific methodology and take  worldwide experiences to promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the longer term. This Special Issue will shed light on the development of megacity regions across countries as a spatial medium forming integrated urban-rural development, which plays a crucial role in regional economic development. Multidisciplinary research that addresses multiple social–environmental–economical facets given transitional urban-rural development from county and territory perspectives is particularly welcome.

Prof. Dr. Xun Li
Dr. Wei Lang
Dr. Tingting Chen
Guest Editors

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