Advances in Earth Science ›› 2002, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 729-733. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2002.05.0729
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YU Sheng 1，CHEN Yong 2，CHANG Xu 3，GE Hong-kui 4
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YU Sheng，CHEN Yong，CHANG Xu，GE Hong-kui. URBANIZATION AND GEOPHYSICS RESEARCH[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2002, 17(5): 729-733.
Urbanization, especially in developing countries, is a trend along with the growth of world economic. A new discipline—urban geophysics makes its appearance under this background. The importance, key scientific problems, major research methods and the scope of recent study of the new discipline is discussed in this paper.