Some of the Republican split on the vote reflects the difference between the metropolitan view framed by urban gun violence and the rural perspective where guns are mostly associated with law-abiding hunters and the constitutional rights.
Mr Hogg added that he was looking at the "policing model" and the distribution of officers between rural, urban and coastal areas of the two counties and Isles of Scilly.
The State Council also pointed to a big wealth gap between the urban and rural regions and vowed to provide more fiscal support for the less developed central and western regions of the country.
More than 20 field projects followed, on such themes as energy flows and recycling in Lae (Papua New Guinea), urban flora and fauna in Berlin (Germany) and in Xalapa (Mexico), children in the city of Toronto (Canada), urban green spaces in Dayton (USA), Seoul (Rep. Korea) and Valencia (Spain) and linkages between the urban and rural environments in Bangkok (Thailand) and Rome (Italy).
The SCRSJ is a collaboration between the department of urban studies at Glasgow University and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at Aberdeen University.
The difference between urban and rural settings comes in how easily the rules can be waived.
The per capita income gap between the top 10% of urban households and bottom 10% of rural households is adjusted from 23x based on the official data to 65x.
But none of these policies will change the fundamental cause of inequality between rural and urban areas: massive underemployment in the countryside.
Yet the more significant reason is the growing rift in state politics between rural and urban constituencies.
However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.
"The development gap between urban and rural areas and between regions is still large, and so are income disparities, " Hu said.
The widening gap between urban and rural areas is to be narrowed.
Other economists note that allowing farmers to devote their labour and their land to more lucrative crops would help solve one of China's most pressing structural problems: the vast discrepancy between urban and rural incomes.
That history helps explain the wealth and income gap between blacks and whites, and the concentrated pockets of poverty that persist in so many of today's urban and rural communities.
Second, the widening income gap between coastal urban dwellers and inland rural farmers is alarming.
Probably this worry derives from the difference in population density between urban and rural or small town areas, but there is a tacit implication that non-urban dwellers are more expendable than urban dwellers.
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