A comparative study of urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang over the past three decades

Wu, Wenwei; Zhao, Shuqing; Zhu, Cheng; Jin-liang, Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.10.010

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“…As reported in many previous studies, spatiotemporal urban land cover change is a serious concern both in megacities, such as Beijing [8,9], Shanghai [10][11][12], Hangzhou [13,14], and Guangzhou [15,16], and in developed coastal urban agglomerations, especially the three largest urban agglomerations, i.e., the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) [17,18], the Pearl River Delta (PRD) [19,20] and the Jing-Jin-Ji (JJJ) [21][22][23]. However, urban expansion in less developed cities and urban agglomerations has received little attention even though rapid urbanization has also occurred in these areas.…”

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“…Numerous previous researches have shown that rapid urban expansion have occurred in the above three urban agglomerations over time [17,20,22,23], however, less for the MYRB urban agglomeration. To better understand the urban expansion in the MYRB urban agglomeration and the differences between the four national level urban agglomerations, a comparison of urban expansion rate among the four urban agglomerations was made.…”

Section: Urban Expansion In the Myrb Urban Agglomeration Compared Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, these indices can quantify the urban expansion during the study period. They are defined as follows [10,22]:…”

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of Urban Expansionmentioning

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“…The rate of urban expansion in the WHM was reported to have an increase of 40.69 × 10 4 ha from 2000 to 2011 [26] and urban expansion in the CZTM was reported to be dominated by edge-expansion in [63]. Meanwhile, infilling expansion mode was the primary expansion mode in the other three national level urban agglomerations as time went on [22,30], however, edge-expansion and outlying modes are still dominated the urban expansion mode in the MYRB urban agglomeration. The result indicates that the other three large urban agglomerations have begun to use land more intensively, while the MYRB is still at the stage of creating more urban land without a regular planning.…”

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Satellite Monitoring of Urban Land Change in the Middle Yangtze River Basin Urban Agglomeration, China between 2000 and 2016

Liu

Chen

2017

Remote Sensing

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Detailed studies on the spatiotemporal patterns of urban agglomeration in the Middle Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) are rare. This paper analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization in the MYRB using multi-temporal remote sensing data circa 2000, 2008 and 2016 integrated with geographic information system (GIS) techniques and landscape analysis approaches. A multi-level analysis of the rate and intensity, type as well as the landscape changes of urban expansion at regional, prefectural and inner-city levels was performed. Results show that the MYRB experienced rapid urban expansion with an annual expansion rate of 3.199%, especially in the Chang-Zhu-Tan and Poyang Lake metropolitan areas. The small and medium cities presented faster urban expansion than the larger cities with annual growth rates three times the average level. Urban expansion within the three capital cities was further analyzed in detail. It is found that outlying expansion and edge-expansion were the dominant growth patterns at all the three levels. Although urbanization in the MYRB has a remarkable increase in the past sixteen years, its annual growth rate of urban land expansion has fallen behind the three other large urban agglomerations in China as a result. Finally, the spatial evolution of the socioeconomic structure of the MYRB was further explored. It indicated that urban land was distributed mainly along the "northwest-southeast" direction and that the economic spatial interactions among cities showed a pattern of "multi-polarization and fragmentation", which illustrates the weak radiative driving forces of the central cities. The MYRB urban agglomeration faces a great challenge to manage trades-offs between narrowing the intra-regional disparity and maintaining synergetic development among cities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Urban Expansion In the Myrb Urban Agglomeration Compared Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, these indices can quantify the urban expansion during the study period. They are defined as follows [10,22]:…”

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of Urban Expansionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Expansion In the Myrb Urban Agglomeration Compared Witmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Satellite Monitoring of Urban Land Change in the Middle Yangtze River Basin Urban Agglomeration, China between 2000 and 2016

Liu

Chen

2017

Remote Sensing

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“…Unprecedented urbanization, characterized by demographic shifts from rural to urbanized areas and urban land expansion, has taken place globally in the past several decades [1][2][3]. Although accounting for only a tiny proportion (perhaps less than 1%) of the world's land surface, urban areas serve as a base of more than 90% of the global economy and 50% of the world's population [4,5].…”

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A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan from the 1970s to 2013

Zhang

Xiao

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Remote Sensing

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Abstract:Although the mapping of spatiotemporal patterns of urban expansion has been widely studied, relatively little attention has been paid to detailed comparative studies on spatiotemporal patterns of urban growth at the regional level over a relatively longer timeframe. This paper was based on multi-sensor remote sensing image data and employs several landscape metrics and the centroid shift model to conduct a multi-angle quantitative analysis on urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan (Jing-Jin-Tang) in the period from 1970-2013. In addition, the impact analysis of urban growth on land use was adopted in this research. The results showed that Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan all experienced rapid urbanization, with an average annual urban growth rate of 7.28%, 3.9%, and 0.97%, respectively. Beijing has especially presented a single choropleth map pattern, whereas Tianjin and Tangshan have presented a double surface network pattern in orientation analysis. Furthermore, urban expansion in Beijing was mainly concentrated in Ring 4 to Ring 6 in the northwest and southeast directions, whereas the major expansion was observed in the southeast in Tianjin, primarily affected by dramatic development of Binhai New Area and Tianjin South Railway Station. Naturally, the urban expansion in Tangshan was significantly influenced by the expansion of Beijing and was primarily southwestward. The hot-zones of urbanization were observed within the ranges of 7-25 km, 6-18 km, and 0-15 km, accounting for 93.49%, 89.44% and 72.44% of the total expansion area in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, respectively. The majority of the newly developed urban land was converted from cultivated land and integrated from other built-up land over the past four decades. Of all new urban land in the Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, more than 50% was converted from cultivated land, and there was a general tendency for smaller cities to have higher percentages of converted land, accounting for 50.84%, 51.19%, and 51.58%, respectively. The study revealed significant details of the temporal and spatial distributions of urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan and provided scientific support for the collaborative development of the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei (Jing-Jin-Ji) regions.

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Monitoring Urban Growth and Land Changes in Beijing, China’s Capital City by Remote Sensing: Progress and Challenges

Liu

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2018

Challenges Towards Ecological Sustainability in China

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A comparative study of urban expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang over the past three decades

Cited by 253 publications

References 54 publications

Satellite Monitoring of Urban Land Change in the Middle Yangtze River Basin Urban Agglomeration, China between 2000 and 2016

Satellite Monitoring of Urban Land Change in the Middle Yangtze River Basin Urban Agglomeration, China between 2000 and 2016

A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan from the 1970s to 2013

Monitoring Urban Growth and Land Changes in Beijing, China’s Capital City by Remote Sensing: Progress and Challenges

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