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Metropolitan Areas Development: New urbanization stage in China
Xingping Wang
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Abstract
This paper presents the similarities and differences of metropolitan area, urban agglomeration, and megalopolis, and analyses relationship among them. Then focusing on Chinese contemporary urbanization, points out that metropolitan areas have become the basic cells and dominate models, discusses the significance and possibility of taking metropolitan area development as the regional development strategy instead of traditional urban system models.