Then came the railroad and the first factories, the development of local textile mills (some, like Cannon, with still-familiar names), the expansion of trade, urbanization, the civil rights movement, busing controversies and, finally, contemporary Charlotte: a city of immigration, banking and business.
"With rapid industrialization and urbanization, the violation of farmers' land rights happens all the time, as local governments make decisions for farmers instead of allowing farmers to decide for themselves," Song Hongyuan, the head of the Research Center for the Rural Economy in the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an interview.
They argue that women gained property rights as economic development and urbanization gave them more opportunities for specialized employment outside the home.
Status of women in the society has been changing fast due to multiple factors such as urbanization, industrialization, increased level of education, awareness of rights, and media influence.
Peasants not only lose land and natural resources that they use to make a living, but also face an awkward situation in which they have no rights to share the achievements of urbanization because of institutional constraints.
A surge in the labor force with the right age structure, higher productivity due to urbanization, a low ratio of dependent people and an increased number of women joining the work force all add to this demographic dividend.
In other words, the doubt has little to do with Wang's work but rather his celebration by the West — a West that, for better or worse, casts a continual and critical eye on both the country's human-rights record and its brisk pace of urbanization.
If we let the South secede, it will no longer present a conundrum to GOP leaders who can't decide whether to bow to hard-right Southern whims or to the inexorable urbanization and minoritization of the larger US.
The findings resonate with earlier studies (UN-Habitat 2011) that have shown that urbanization of poverty would increase unless the governance structure improve urban planning and management, and recognize the right of urban poor to improve their conditions and participate in the distribution of the benefits that the urbanization process has to offer.
By far, the fastest urbanization over the last decade occurred in Kerala, which is clearly an outlier in the bottom right panels of Figs. 15 and 16.
