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Qian, Li; Anlei, Jing – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Urbanization is an issue of universal concern today distinctly affecting the supply, content, and orientation of education. Based on a field study in a city in East China, the article argues that rural-urban migration in the process of urbanization created private sectors in education enterprises that were in sync with the urban community…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Urbanization, Migration Patterns
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Conzen, Michael P. – Journal of Geography, 2010
Most towns were crucial to the initial colonization and economic development of the Great Plains. Many were, directly or indirectly, creatures of railroad corporate planning, owing their location as well as their physical layout to the townsite companies controlled by railroad officials. This article examines how these facts shaped the fundamental…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Transportation, Influence of Technology, Urban Studies
Agency for International Development (Dept. of State), Washington, DC. – 1970
This volume of 1,108 abstracts summarizes the majority of important works on community development during the last ten years. Part I contains abstracts of periodical literature and is classified into 19 sections, including general history, communications, community and area studies, decision-making, leadership, migration and settlement, social…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Books, Communications
Draganov, Mincho – 1976
The theoretical differentiation of the village from the town is made on the basis of a complex of characteristics, which includes: the village was engaged mainly in agriculture; the culture, living conditions and organization of public services were far behind those of the town; the village did not exercise the functions of an administrative,…
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Characteristics, Community Development, Comparative Analysis
Mezirow, Jack D. – 1963
Designed primarily to help improve the training of Peace Corps personnel, this 1,585 item bibliography seeks to provide students of community development with a classification system that serves as the basis of a selected literature review in each of 20 subject fields. Regional designations include General and Comparative, Africa, Asia (general),…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Bibliographies, Community Development, Cultural Influences