Tempo-Spatial Patterns of Land Use Changes and Urban Development in Globalizing China: A Study of Beijing

Xie, Yichun; Fang, Chuanglin; Lin, George C. S.; Gong, Hongmian; Qiao, Bi

doi:10.3390/s7112881

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“…This is documented as mosaic of opportunities and threats to people living in peripheral villages (Aberra & King, 2005;Xie et al, 2007;Olujimi, 2009). A key challenge to the urbanisation process is the rapid conversion of large amount of prime agricultural land to urban land use as well as transformation in the livelihoods of peri-urban dwellers (Owusu & Agyei, 2007).…”

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Household Responses to Livelihood Transformation in Peri-Urban Kumasi

Abass¹,

Afriyie²,

Adomako³

2013

JSD

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This study examines household responses to livelihood transformation in the Kumasi peri-urban area. The main tools used in the data collection are household survey, key informants interviews and focus group discussions. Quantitative data are presented using tables, graphs and charts while direct quotations from respondents are used to present qualitative data. The study identifies both farm and non-farming livelihood strategies as the main livelihood strategies households adopt in the study communities. The study shows that most households rarely depend on one strategy to survive. However, non-farming households have more diversified livelihood strategies than farming households. The social network support base is also identified to play a very important role in the livelihood of respondents. Since farming still remains a very important component of livelihood strategies in the communities, some form of sanity needs to be injected in the land market. The study thus recommends a speed up work on the urban policy while the land policy needs to be fully implemented. The Land Administration Project must also be fast-tracked to bring harmony in the land market. Moreover, interventions to provide alternative means of livelihood to farmers who have lost their farm lands due to urbanisation can be made. Building the capacity of the peri-urban poor through skills training and access to credit and infrastructure facilities is a viable option. This will ensure a proper integration of peri-urban dwellers into urban monetary economy.

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Household Responses to Livelihood Transformation in Peri-Urban Kumasi

Abass¹,

Afriyie²,

Adomako³

2013

JSD

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“…Urbanization is a complex process involving rural-urban shift, urban expansion, and land use change [1][2][3][4][5][6]. The urban expansion process leads to a shortage of natural resources, a number of environmental changes and even disasters on multiple scales [7][8][9].…”

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Monitoring Urban Clusters Expansion in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China, Using Time-Series Nighttime Light Images

Zou

Peng

et al. 2017

Remote Sensing

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Abstract:The urban clusters in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River (MRYR) in China include the Chang-Zhu-Tan urban agglomeration, the Wuhan metropolitan area, and the Poyang Lake urban agglomeration. While previous studies of urban expansion in China focused mainly on the coastal regions, this study aimed to investigate urban expansion patterns and factors in the MRYR, which are crucial for urban development in Central China. A neighborhood statistics analysis (NSA) method and a local-optimized threshold method were used to detect urban changes during 1992-2011 from the time-series Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light (NTL) images. The evolution of urban expansion intensity and landscape metrics were analyzed at multiple spatial scales, including the whole region, urban agglomeration, and city scales. Finally, the expanded STochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) model was built to explore the factors that controlled NTL intensity. The results revealed that urban areas extracted from the NTL data were consistent with those extracted from the Landsat Thematic Mapper data, with an overall accuracy of 81.74% and a Kappa of 0.40. A relatively slow urbanization pace was observed from 1992 to 2002 in the MRYR region, which then accelerated in the period of 2002 to 2007 and then slowed down between 2007 and 2011. Additionally, urban expansion exhibited a radial pattern. The results further indicated that major factors controlling NTL intensity were gross domestic product, followed by total investment in fixed assets, tertiary industry, urban construction area, non-agricultural population, and industrial output in the city clusters. The study provides important insights for further studies on the urbanization processes in the MRYR region.

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“…Xu et al [17] have observed that this major pattern in Nanjing has transformed the city since 1988 from expansion to infilling and leapfrogging. The sprawl of Beijing is based on urban traffic loops of concentric circles [43], while Hangzhou and Wuhan have shown the typical polycentric expansion patterns [18,44]. We could conclude that there is not one simple pattern that works to describe development and expansion in all Chinese cities.…”

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“…Empirical studies (e.g., [15,18,[43][44][45]) find that diverse patterns across cities are due to dissimilar geographic and economic conditions. For example, in Chengdu, geographers find that the major pattern before 2000 is expansion, but after 2000, infilling and leapfrog become the major patterns of urban growth [16].…”

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Urban Land Expansion and Spatial Dynamics in Globalizing Shanghai

Wei

Huang

2014

Sustainability

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Urban land expansion in China has attracted considerable scholarly attention. However, more work is needed to apply spatial modeling to understanding the mechanisms of urban growth from both institutional and physical perspectives. This paper analyzes urban expansion in Shanghai and its development zones (DZs). We find that, as nodes of global-local interface, the DZs are the most significant components of urban growth in Shanghai, and major spatial patterns of urban expansion in Shanghai are infilling and edge expansion. We apply logistic regression, geographically weighted logistic regression (GWLR) and spatial regime regression to investigate the determinants of urban land expansion including physical conditions, state policy and land development. Regressions reveal that, though the market has been an important driving force in urban growth, the state has played a predominant role through the implementation of urban planning and the establishment of DZs to fully capitalize on globalization. We also find that differences in urban growth dynamics exist between the areas inside and outside of the DZs. Finally, this paper discusses policies to promote sustainable development in Shanghai.

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Tempo-Spatial Patterns of Land Use Changes and Urban Development in Globalizing China: A Study of Beijing

Cited by 65 publications

References 70 publications

Household Responses to Livelihood Transformation in Peri-Urban Kumasi

Household Responses to Livelihood Transformation in Peri-Urban Kumasi

Monitoring Urban Clusters Expansion in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, China, Using Time-Series Nighttime Light Images

Urban Land Expansion and Spatial Dynamics in Globalizing Shanghai

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