Comparing urban land expansion and its driving factors in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China

Chen, Jianfei; Chang, Kang‐Tsung; Karácsonyi, Dávid; Zhang, Xiaolin

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.01.004

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“…These enterprises prefer to be located away from the urban area but near highways for more convenience and lower costs. Our results indicate that three common urban growth types (infilling, outlying and edge-expansion) [50,51] have been widely observed in the newly developed urban areas, and infilling and edge-expansion have also been detected. Consequently, a large amount of contiguous farmland was lost to built-up land in the urban area.…”

Section: Spatial Features Of Farmland Loss Associated With Highway Comentioning

confidence: 53%

Analyzing the Impact of Highways Associated with Farmland Loss under Rapid Urbanization

Song

Zhu

et al. 2016

IJGI

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Abstract:Highway construction has accelerated urban growth and induced direct and indirect changes to land use. Although many studies have analyzed the relationship between highway construction and local development, relatively less attention has been paid to clarifying the various impacts of highways associated with farmland loss. This paper integrates GIS spatial analysis, remote sensing, buffer analysis and landscape metrics to analyze the landscape pattern change induced by direct and indirect highway impacts. This paper explores the interaction between the impact of highways and farmland loss, using the case of the highly urbanized traffic hubs in eastern China, Hang-Jia-Hu Plain. Our results demonstrate that the Hang-Jia-Hu Plain experienced extensive highway construction during 1990-2010, with a clear acceleration of expressway development since 2000. This unprecedented highway construction has directly fragmented the regional landscape and indirectly disturbed the regional landscape by attracting a large amount of built-up land transition from farmland during the last two decades. In the highway-effect zone, serious farmland loss initially occurred in the urban region and then spread to the rural region. Moreover, we found the discontinuous expansion of built-up land scattered the farmland in the rural region and expressway-effect zone. Furthermore, farmland protection policies in the 1990s had the effect of controlling the total area of farmland loss. However, the cohesive farmland structure was still fragmented by the direct and indirect impacts of highway construction. We suggest that an overall farmland protection system should be established to enhance spatial control and mitigate the adverse impacts caused by highway construction. This work improves the understanding of regional sustainable development, and provides a scientific basis for balanced urban development with farmland protection in decision-making processes.

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Section: Spatial Features Of Farmland Loss Associated With Highway Comentioning

confidence: 53%

Analyzing the Impact of Highways Associated with Farmland Loss under Rapid Urbanization

Song

Zhu

et al. 2016

IJGI

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“…Nonetheless, increased land prices in central city areas have forced relatively low value-added sectors to move to city peripheries, where land rent is affordable and transport facilities are in good condition. Consequently, factory workers and a series of support service facilities also move to the suburbs, resulting in urban land development gradually spreading to the periphery of cities [39].…”

Section: Spill-over Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Rapid Urban Land Development in Provincial China: A Case Study of Jiangsu

2017

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Abstract:Since its economic reform and opening-up, China has undergone unprecedented urbanization, where massive areas of rural land have been converted into urban use. Urban land development plays an important role in dynamic urban economic development. This study aims to contribute to the understanding of urban land development and its mechanisms in China. We conceptualized the mechanism of urban land development from multiple perspectives based on a case study in Jiangsu Province. We employed the methods of global and local spatial auto-correlation The results show that urban land development varies significantly across different time periods, spatial scales, and regions in Jiangsu. Higher absolute urban land development mainly occurred in Sunan, expanding to Subei and Suzhong, while faster development occurred mainly in Subei, where the initial bases were lower but had strong economic growth potential. The regression analysis shows that market activities and administrative levels had played a more critical role in driving urban land development, which suggests that rapid urban land development has institutional and market foundations. Urban land development was not only a consequence of economic development but also a strategy of local governments to stimulate and govern the urban economy. This study enriches the literature on urban dynamics by providing an institutional understanding of rapid urban land development in a transitional economy.

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“…Marketization stimulates urban development from two aspects. For one thing, demand for land is increased by the boom of private enterprises and industrialization [30,34]. The variables including private economy proportion (PEP) and private companies proportion (PFP) are therefore selected.…”

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Quantifying Urban Fragmentation under Economic Transition in Shanghai City, China

You

2015

Sustainability

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Urban fragmentation affects sustainability through multiple impacts on economic, social, and environmental cost. Characterizing the dynamics of urban fragmentation in relation to economic transition should provide implications for sustainability. However, rather few efforts have been made in this issue. Using the case of Shanghai (China), this paper quantifies urban fragmentation in relation to economic transition. In particular, urban fragmentation is quantified by a time-series of remotely sensed images and a set of landscape metrics; and economic transition is described by a set of indicators from three aspects (globalization, decentralization, and marketization). Results show that urban fragmentation presents an increasing linear trend. Multivariate regression identifies positive linear correlation between urban fragmentation and economic transition. More specifically, the relative influence is different for the three components of economic transition. The relative influence of decentralization is stronger than that of globalization and marketization. The joint influences of decentralization and globalization are the strongest for urban fragmentation. The demonstrated methodology can be applicable to other places after making suitable adjustment of the economic transition indicators and fragmentation metrics.

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Comparing urban land expansion and its driving factors in Shenzhen and Dongguan, China

Cited by 138 publications

References 36 publications

Analyzing the Impact of Highways Associated with Farmland Loss under Rapid Urbanization

Analyzing the Impact of Highways Associated with Farmland Loss under Rapid Urbanization

Spatial–Temporal Patterns and Driving Factors of Rapid Urban Land Development in Provincial China: A Case Study of Jiangsu

Quantifying Urban Fragmentation under Economic Transition in Shanghai City, China

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