From urban-rural to global dependencies

Hans Westlund and Yuheng Li

International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 2014, vol. 13, issue 2/3/4, 141-149

Abstract: Against the background of global urban knowledge economy, this paper discusses some of the challenges that sustainable urban life is facing in the global knowledge economy of the 21st century. The paper makes an overview of the fundamental change in urban-rural relations, urban and rural demographics, the concepts of place surplus and place attractiveness, agglomeration and the new economic geography, global threats to long-term urban sustainability and finally the needs of policy visions and strategies for sustainable urban life across the world.

Keywords: urban-rural relations; place attractiveness; urban sustainability; agricultural productivity; global market failure; sustainable development; knowledge economy; cities; demographics; place surplus; agglomeration; new economic geography. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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