“Peasant worker shortage” originated from coastal towns in Fujian in 2003. However, there are about 200,000,000 surplus labors, and about 5,000,000 new surplus labor. From an angle of economics, the author analyses the causes of this phenomenon, indicating that the problems mirrored by the shortage of farmer laborers will have negative influence upon the construction of a new type industrial st...

the present paper studies the objectives and functions of constructing the new towns before and after the revolution in iran. before the revolution, new towns were established based on political – bureaucratic objectives, for the operation of huge oil resources and affiliated industries, to accommodate the workforce in industrial complexes, to implement the policy of regional decentralization...

The Egyptian new towns experience is among the most comprehensive and ambitious, regionallyand worldwide. Initiated as a governmental policy within a general strategy to tackle the multitude of problemsburdening Egyptian settlements in general and major and secondary cities surrounded by agricultural land. New townswere thought as an effective partial solution for the problems of: encroachment ...

as the urban population increases in major cities of iran, many of them face different issues. in iran, new towns are built and located near cities to absorb their overflow population. golbahar new town was built near mashhad metropolis to reduce demographic, economic, social and physical problems of mashhad, but in practice considering its goals, the town has not been able to reduce the proble...

this article, with a focus on the change and transformation process of the approaches and trends affecting the new towns policy, scrutinizes the first and second generations of the new towns in reference to the south korea as a case study. the first generation of new towns development in south korea is associated with the rapid growth of urbanization, industrialization and subsequently economic...