Assessing urbanization quality using structure and function analyses: A case study of the urban agglomeration around Hangzhou Bay (UAHB), China

Zhou, De; Xu, Jing; Wang, Li; Lin, Zhulu

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.05.020

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“…Local/urban Li et al [26], Moussiopoulos et al [27], Yin et al [32], Musakwa W. et al [28], Zhao et al [29], Shen et al [30], Chen et al [25], Wang et al [31] Regional Shen et al [33], Zhan et al [34], Wang et al [35], Zhou et al [19], Xu et al [36], Tan et al [37] National the United States [30], Wursthorn et al [38], Shi et al [39], Grzebyk et al [9], Bolcárová et al [10] International UNCSD [3], UNEP [5], the Word Bank [6], European Commission [7,8] Standardizing, weighting and aggregating are usually the basic process of urban sustainable development assessment [2]. The weighting methods, which are the critical step of evaluation, can be mainly divided into two categories.…”

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“…This method possibly tends to exaggerate or reduce the effects of certain indicators, and easily leads to reflecting the relationship among indicators inaccurately. The other is the objective method, which determines the weight of each index based on internal relationship and variation degree among different indicators, can effectively avoid deviation of human factors, includes principal component analysis (PCA) [9,10], the entropy method [19,[29][30][31], grey relational analysis [25] and the factor analysis [44].…”

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

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Abstract:The Chinese government started an important project "Geographical conditions monitoring (GCM)" in 2012, which aims at fully revealing the spatial pattern of natural resources, and economic and social development. Urban development assessment and analysis are an important topic of the comprehensive statistics in GCM project. This study quantitatively evaluates the sustainable development level of 287 cities at prefecture level and above in China and analyzes their spatial distribution. Both an index system of urban sustainable development (USI) constructed by three aspects, namely society, economy and environment, and the TOPSIS-Entropy method are adopted. The results show that the overall level of urban sustainable development in China is not high, and obvious differences in urban sustainable development among cities exist. The coordination of social, economic and environmental sustainable development in China is at a low level. In terms of spatial distribution, cities from eastern coastal areas of China are at relatively higher levels of sustainable development with central and northeastern cities ranking second and western ones lowest. Several spatial clusters of urban sustainable development can be found. The "High-High" clusters, in which cities have high levels of sustainable development, are distributed in urban agglomerations. Finally, some suggestions have been provided to achieve all-round sustainable development in China.

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“…Ever since the concept of new urbanization was first put forward by the 16th National Congress of Communist Party of China in 2002, numerous new urbanization index systems have been proposed [1, 10,19,39]. However, due to lack of systematic new urbanization planning guidance, most of them cannot fully capture the contents of NNUP.…”

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A Comprehensive Quantitative Evaluation of New Sustainable Urbanization Level in 20 Chinese Urban Agglomerations

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Abstract:On 16 March 2014, the State Council of China launched its first urbanization planning initiative dubbed "National New Urbanization Planning (2014-2020)" (NNUP). NNUP put forward 20 urban agglomerations and a sustainable development approach aiming to transform traditional Chinese urbanization to sustainable new urbanization. This study quantitatively evaluates the level of sustainability of the present new urbanization process in 20 Chinese urban agglomerations and provides some positive suggestions for the achievement of sustainable new urbanization. A three-level index system which is based on six fundamental elements in a city and a Full Permutation Polygon Synthetic Indicator evaluation method are adopted. The results show that China is undergoing a new urbanization process with a low level of sustainability and there are many problems remaining from traditional urbanization processes. There exists a polarized phenomenon in the urbanization of 20 urban agglomerations. Based on their own development patterns, the 20 urban agglomerations can be divided into seven categories. Every category has its own development characteristics. The analyses also show that waste of water resources, abuse of land resources, and air pollution are three big problems that are closely linked to traditional Chinese urbanization processes. To achieve sustainable new urbanization in China, four relevant suggestions and comments have been provided.

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“…Especially in China, the rates of urbanization and industrialization have been unprecedented and it has attracted global attention [3]. As a result, cities in China are no longer isolated but rapidly concentrated and linked together in form of urban agglomeration (UA) [4,5]. UA in China is generally characterized by coordinated development, industrial transfer, infrastructure sharing, and population concentration [6,7].…”

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Monitoring Spatial Patterns and Changes of Ecology, Production, and Living Land in Chinese Urban Agglomerations: 35 Years after Reform and Opening Up, Where, How and Why?

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Abstract:Chinese urban agglomeration (UA) has gradually become a new world economic center and the strategic region of the "The Belt and Road Initiatives". The spatial patterns and variations of ecology-production-living land (EPL) profoundly affect UA's development and its ecological environment. Unfortunately, scientific understanding about the trajectories, patterns and drivers of EPL changes in Chinese urban agglomerations (UAs) since reform and opening up is still very limited. The aim of this paper was to monitor those characteristics during the last 35 years. Here, we proposed a new classification system of EPL, including ecology land (EL), industrial production land (IPL), agricultural production land (APL), urban living land (ULL) and rural living land (RLL) due to Chinese urban-rural dual structure. Then, we extracted EPL land from the Chinese LUCC product, which is the recently released remote sensing data product of high resolution spatial land use data in China at national level. Furthermore, we analyzed the spatial-temporal trajectories and driving factors of EPL for Chinese UAs during 1980-2015. The results showed that: (1) ULL and IPL in Chinese UAs were increased rapidly, while EL and APL were seriously decreased. (2) The growth patterns of ULL and IPL had shown a spatial heterogeneity. As to different regional UAs, the expansion rates of ULL and IPL ranked from high to low were as follows: eastern, central, western, and northeastern UAs. (3) National policies, population, and economy dominated the spatial-temporal changes of EPL in Chinese UAs. (4) The multi-planning integration in the structure of land use should be strengthened at UA-scale.

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Assessing urbanization quality using structure and function analyses: A case study of the urban agglomeration around Hangzhou Bay (UAHB), China

Cited by 112 publications

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development in China Based on the TOPSIS-Entropy Method

A Comprehensive Quantitative Evaluation of New Sustainable Urbanization Level in 20 Chinese Urban Agglomerations

Monitoring Spatial Patterns and Changes of Ecology, Production, and Living Land in Chinese Urban Agglomerations: 35 Years after Reform and Opening Up, Where, How and Why?

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