The dynamic changes in urban fringes have been widely studied in the context of suburbanization, but few studies have disaggregated the fragmented expansion or intrinsic differences in rural housing at the household or village level. Using fine-grained housing data from 66 villages in Shanghai for the period of 1978–2017, we elucidated the fragmented variation in rural housing and the state of wealth differences in urban fringes at the household or village levels, as well as examined the relationships between rural housing expansion and housin...
