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As cities grow, they may swallow outlying towns and erase the rural-urban
boundary (Cohen, 2004). This phenomenon is exemplified by the desakotas
(‘village-cities’) of Southeast Asia (McGee, 1991) that are economically active
areas at the edges of cities with both urban and rural features (Ginsburg
et al., 1991). Nonagricultural activities are the main sources of income for
desakota populations. Some members of these communities work in village
and cottage industries, others commute to work in the city, and still others
are based in the city and send remittances to their family members in the
periphery. Much of the land in these zones remains under cultivation, but
there is a shift away from subsistence crops towards market-oriented and
high-value crops (McGee, 1991).
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