极化开发理论是区域开发研究中最重要的理论之一, 常被许多国家包括发达国家用来制定区域发展计划。上海浦东新区极化开发战略的实施, 使得其成为资本、技术、劳动力等各种生产要素、企业和产业的“辐合流场”。与此同时, 极化开发也使人口作为社会经济活动中最活跃的因素向浦东新区大迁移、大流动, 形成了人口在空间的集聚、重新分布以及不同人群的居住分异。极化开发还产生了社区重构、社会极化、社会隔离和阶层矛盾等社会效应, 并对浦东新区社会经济的持续稳定发展产生较大的影响。

The theory of polarized development is one of the most important theories in studies of regional developments, and frequently used by many countries, including developed countries, to formulate their regional development planning. The practice of polarization development strategy in Shanghai's Pudong New District has made the district become a convergence place of various productive factors such as capital, technology, labor force, enterprise and industry. Meanwhile, the polarized development makes population, as the most active factor of social and economic activities, largely move to Pudong New District, and forms the population spatially gathering, redistributing and residential difference of various groups. It also produces many social effects such as community reconstruction, social polarization, social segregation and stratum contradiction. These social effects will influence social and economic sustainable developments of Pudong New District.