In his PhD dissertation he noted that when rural land reform was implemented in the 1950s, many landlords used their compensation money to buy urban land. During the four years it took to implement rural land reform, rents in major cities rose four- or five-fold, until control of the land was concentrated in relatively few hands.
一九六四年台灣邀請來的聯合國專家就指出，到西元二千年，台灣都市人口將佔百分之六十七，鄉村土地改革雖然能暫時穩定都市人口，但並不能阻止都市人口增加。