Transformer, an attention-based encoder–decoder model, has already revolutionized the
field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some …

Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly
dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like …

The rapid increase of urban population during the 21 st century has led to the expansion of
metropolises and increased demand for land in peri-urban areas, which are often the object …

China's rapid urbanization growth during the past decades which has highly promoted its
affluence has induced various challenges for the countryside. The problem of rural decline …

Foreboding declarations about contemporary urban trends pervade early twenty‐first
century academic, political and journalistic discourse. Among the most widely recited is the …

This study presents a groundbreaking theoretical framework to examine the role of urban-
rural system functions (URSFs) in the coordinated development of urban-rural integration …

Since the turn of the new millennium, the Chinese central government has focused
significant attention on substantially improving rural residents' well-being and achieving the …

The implications of environmental change for migration are little understood. Migration as a
response to climate change could be seen as a failure of in situ adaptation methods, or …

The process of rapid urbanization results in the flow and agglomeration of regional
production factors, which leads to the transformation of the urban-rural territorial system and …

Since the turn of the new millennium, urban-rural transformation has entered a critical
period. Ever-widening gaps between urban and rural areas are common in most parts of …