How can we change rural settlements into urban settlements
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... Despite significant advances in the development of the quantifying the level and speed of urbanization across the science and policy arenas, an accurate and comprehensive evaluation of urban development remains challenging, especially at the town scale and in data-scarce regions [10,11]. According to the literature, the spatial change of a town center pattern was the most intuitive expression of urbanization at the town scale, and ordinarily showed a significantly positive correlation with socio-economic development [2,12]. Several studies selected change of town center pattern as an important urbanization indicator for exploring the impact of urbanization on ecosystem services deterioration, arable land loss, and agricultural landscape fragments [8,13]. ...
... The spatio-temporal driving mechanism of urbanization has always been a focus for the academic community [12,21,22]. Current theories mainly address population moving and relocation, economic explanations, transport and communication, policies, and institutions [2,23]. ...
... For quantifying the spatio-temporal urbanization process at the township level, a large-scale data driven approach was established, and a representative town (Jinjing) was chosen to verify the approach, which typifies many towns in terms of geo-morphology and socio-economic dynamics, making it an ideal microcosm of the larger region. In general, similarly to a higher-level administrative unit, a town includes at least one urban core, which can be considered the center of the town and the mark of urbanization [12]. Exploring the characteristics and processes of urbanization at the town scale should provide critical references for land planners creating policies and strategies for future urban development. ...