Manufacturing agglomeration, urban form, and haze pollution

Abstract

Manufacturing agglomeration promotes rapid economic development while also causing severe environmental pollution. This paper investigates the impact and mechanism of manufacturing agglomeration on haze pollution from the Chinese city level. Furthermore, we discuss the moderating effect and threshold effect of the three urban forms of urban external shape complexity, urban compactness, and urban fragmentation on the relationship between the two. The result shows: (1) The aggregation of the manufacturing industry presents an inverted U-shaped characteristic of promoting first and then inhibiting haze pollution in China's overall, eastern and central regions. (2) The complexity of the city's external shape and the city's fragmentation has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between manufacturing agglomeration and haze pollution. And urban fragmentation shows a negative moderating effect on the relationship between the two when the level of manufacturing agglomeration is on the right side of the inverted U-shaped curve. (3) The urban form shows a significant double threshold characteristic for haze pollution, increasing the complexity of the city's external shape and the city's fragmentation. The agglomeration of manufacturing shows the characteristics of first inhibiting and then promoting haze pollution. As urban compactness increases, the inhibitory effect of manufacturing agglomeration on haze pollution increases.

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