Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Gao, Jinlong; Wei, Yehua Dennis; Chen, Wen; Yenneti, Komali

doi:10.3390/su70810281

Cited by 83 publications

(46 citation statements)

References 73 publications

(100 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…In a contrast to sprawling urban pattern, compact urban form and design can significantly improve neighborhood walkability and promote people's preference for walking. In future work, more urban evolution factors should be examined such as urban land expansion, which also influences PA and sustainability [79].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walkability, Land Use and Physical Activity

et al. 2016

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Physical activity (PA) promotes healthy life and contributes to sustainable development. In this paper, we rely on the Utah Household Travel Survey data and analyze the determinants of PA in terms of neighborhood land use, accessibility to transportation, and socio-demographic status in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States using four-component walkability indices at various geographic scales. We find that PA is associated with neighborhood land use and social demographic status, including the compact design of the neighborhood. The results also indicate that land use mix is insignificant, and that current neighborhood design only supports people's 20-min walk. The spatial lag model reveals significant spatial autocorrelation of PA but the barely improved R 2 validates the dominant effect of neighborhood land use and social demographic status on people's walking behavior.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walkability, Land Use and Physical Activity

et al. 2016

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In order to attract FDI to stimulate the local economy, almost every town planned its own industrial estate and preferential policies, one of which was low-cost land use. As a result, a development zone fever emerged in the late 1990s [14,[43][44][45].…”

Section: From Tve-driven Urbanization To Fdi-driven Development Zone mentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Spatial Determinants of Urban Growth in Suzhou, China

2017

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban growth and models its spatial determinants in China through a case study of Suzhou, a rapidly industrializing and globalizing city. We conducted spatial analysis on land use data derived from multi-temporal remote sensing images of Suzhou from 1986 to 2008. Three urban growth types, namely infilling, edge-expansion, and leapfrog, were identified. We used landscape metrics to quantify the temporal trend of urban growth in Suzhou. During these 22 years, Suzhou's urbanization changed from bottom-up rural urbanization to city-based top-down urban expansion. The underlying mechanism changed from TVE (town village enterprise) driven rural industrialization to FDI (foreign direct investment) driven development zone fever. Furthermore, we employed both global and local logistic regressions to model the probability of urban land conversion against a set of spatial variables. The global logistic regression model found the significance of proximity, neighborhood conditions, and socioeconomic factors. The logistic geographically weighted regression (GWR) model improved the global regression model with better model goodness-of-fit and higher prediction accuracy. More importantly, the local parameter estimates of variables enabled us to exam spatial variations of the influences of variables on urban growth in Suzhou.

show abstract

“…The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of the most developed regions in China, accounting for 1.00% of China's total land area, supporting 7.60% of the nation's 1.34 billion residents and producing 17.60% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 [39,40]. The core region of the YRD comprises 16 cities (79 counties) (Figure 1).…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Protect Cropland: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:Due to large land demand and insufficient economic incentives, stakeholders have little motivation to protect cropland during rapid urbanization. The considerable loss of cropland poses a serious threat to food security and ecological sustainability. This research proposes a framework of payment for ecosystem services (PES) to reconcile the large land demand and the need for cropland protection during economic development by identifying whom to compensate, what to pay, how much to pay, the mechanisms for payment, and verification of service delivery. Using the Yangtze River Delta as an example, the features of the PES based on supply-demand analysis, compensation quality and value standards, and payment regulation are demonstrated. The results show the effectiveness of this PES framework for handling the externality of environmental protection compared to traditional regulatory approaches. The framework will also aid in the protection of cropland by coordinating the benefits of stakeholders.

show abstract

Urban Land Expansion and Structural Change in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Cited by 83 publications

References 73 publications

Walkability, Land Use and Physical Activity

Walkability, Land Use and Physical Activity

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Spatial Determinants of Urban Growth in Suzhou, China

A Framework of Payment for Ecosystem Services to Protect Cropland: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About