Reproducing Spaces of Chinese Urbanisation: New City-based and Land-centred Urban Transformation.
China's spaces of urbanisation in the 1980s and early 1990s were occupied primarily by the interests of rural industrialisation and town development. Since the mid 1990s, China's urban spaces have been reproduced through a city-based and land-centred process of urbanisation in which large cities man...
| Publicado en: | Urban Studies (Routledge) Vol. 44; no. 9; pp. 1827 - 1856 |
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Aug2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=26447771&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 26447771 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00420980 UST jtl: Urban Studies (Routledge) issn: 00420980 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Aug2007 vid: 44 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 26447771 10.1080/00420980701426673 ppf: 1827 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 177KB tig: atl: Reproducing Spaces of Chinese Urbanisation: New City-based and Land-centred Urban Transformation. aug: au: Lin, George C. S. affil: School of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong su: Urbanization Land use planning Urban policy Urban growth Economic development Economics China sug: subj: China Urbanization Land use planning Urban policy Urban growth Economic development Economics ab: China's spaces of urbanisation in the 1980s and early 1990s were occupied primarily by the interests of rural industrialisation and town development. Since the mid 1990s, China's urban spaces have been reproduced through a city-based and land-centred process of urbanisation in which large cities managed to reassert their leading positions in an increasingly competitive, globalising and urbanising economy. This study analyses changes in China's non-agricultural land in relation to the growth and structural changes of Chinese cities. A systematic analysis of three sets of data reveals a high intensity and great unevenness of non-agricultural land use in the country. China had 29.5 million hectares of non-agricultural land in 1996, which accounted for only 3 per cent of the national land mass. Over 80 per cent of the recent increase in non-agricultural land use was caused by the expansion of urban and rural settlements, industrialisation and numerous 'development zones'. A comparative analysis of land use data and Landsat images identifies two concurrent processes of urbanisation and non-agricultural land use change. Rapid urban sprawl of large cities, driven by the expansion of ring-roads and setting up of 'development zones', has contributed to the conversion of farmland into non-agricultural uses. At the same time, rural industrialisation and a housing boom have given rise to a dispersed pattern of non-agricultural land development all over the country. Given the pervasive influence of the forces of continuing urbanisation and globalisation, the state's attempt to protect China's dwindling farmland will not reverse the trend of increasing non-agricultural land use, but are likely to slow the pace of land conversion. Anecdotal evidence such as 'hollow villages' and idle land in numerous encircled 'development zones' suggests that there exist ways for China to use its non-agricultural land more efficiently and economically than hitherto. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Urban Studies (Routledge) is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Urban Studies (Routledge) holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2007 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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