Operational Pattern of Urban-Rural Integration Regulated by Land Use in Metropolitan Fringe of China

Abstract

Due to a lack of the realization mechanism and operational pattern of the urban-rural integration by land use, this study employs land use to regulate interface elements to achieve urban-rural integration development. Therefore, we analyzed urban-rural reality in Pukou District of Nanjing City, a typical metropolitan fringe of China, and investigated farmers’ willingness of typical representative villages. The results show that (1) According to the combination of resource environment, development intensity and development potential, Pukou District is divided into four land use areas, including optimization integration area, key development area, urban agricultural area, and ecotourism area. Most of the investigated farmers have a strong willingness to realize urban-rural integration by land use; (2) This study proposes an operational pattern of regional land use. The pattern is mainly based on “reality + willingness + policy” by using the three tools of “farmland reconsolidation, village reconstruction and factor reallocation”. It achieves urban-rural integration development through “zoning guidance–willingness driven–pattern selection–differentiated tools”.

Sustainable Agricultural Development Models of the Ecologically Vulnerable Karst Areas in Southeast Yunnan from the Perspective of Human–Earth Areal System

“…As the main implementer of the model, farmers' willingness should be fully considered to mobilize their enthusiasm for ecological governance and agricultural production activities [46][47][48]57]. This study shows that farmers tend to increase their income and focus on economic benefits without ecological protection, which is not conducive to the sustainable development of karst ecosystems.…”

Application of Spatiotemporal Pattern Mining Methods for Land Use Transition Research: A Case Study of Baiyun District in Guangzhou

“…Meanwhile, this study innovatively combines the history, policy measures and socio-economic development of the study area for a time-phased refinement analysis, which further confirms that land use transition in urban suburbs is a spatiotemporal evolution process of a complex man-land relationship. It is also the most direct result of multiple forces such as physical geography and socioeconomic conditions on land use morphology (Gong et al, 2019;Yao and Tian, 2020;Cao et al, 2021). The unique natural environment has shaped the original farming style, and the continuous improvement of the agricultural business system after the founding of New China has injected continuous momentum into agricultural production (Li H et al, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021).…”

“…However, urban suburbs continue to be faced with the problem of limited land resources. Even under the multiple constraints of the "Controlling growth and forcing storage" policy, the problems of mixed tenure, spatial fragmentation, poor living environment and industrial inefficiency continue to persist (Gong et al, 2019;Yang, 2019;Yao and Tian, 2020;Cao et al, 2021). The recent construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Bay Area and the national strategy of rural revitalization have brought new opportunities and challenges to the urban suburbs of the Pearl River Delta (Gong, et al, 2019).…”

“…There are particular problems associated with land use recessive morphology, such as "village in city," and the related issues of mixed ownership and the pollution of "production-livingecology" space (Yao and Tian, 2020); The development problems associated with land use stage, such as resource and environmental constraints (Cao et al, 2021;Elahi et al, 2022a), the conception lag behind of natives (Elahi et al, 2022b), backward industrial technology and uncontrollable extreme weather (Elahi et al, 2021;Nath et al, 2022). The dominant morphology dominated by the land structure and the recessive morphology have gradually become projected in the suburban space (Yanbo et al, 2021).…”

How Do Population Flows Promote Urban–Rural Integration? Addressing Migrants’ Farmland Arrangement and Social Integration in China’s Urban Agglomeration Regions

“…Since the reform and opening-up in the 1980s, China has experienced an unprecedented urbanization which brought forth not only economic advancement but also imbalanced developments in urban and rural areas [1,2]. The socio-economic transformation has seriously affected the rural areas, leading to the irrational use of land and economic recession [3][4][5]. In view of this, the national strategy called "urban-rural integrated development" has been proposed to bridge the urban-rural gap and achieve a coordinated urban-rural interaction [6].…”