scholarly journals Analysis of an Urban Development Boundary Policy in China Based on the IAD Framework

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 855
Author(s):  
Jiaojiao Luo ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Yuzhe Wu ◽  
Yi Peng ◽  
Linlin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Growth Control ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Land Transfer ◽  
Institutional Analysis And Development ◽  
Urban Growth Control ◽  
Policy Problems ◽  
Iad Framework

Although urban growth control policies are widely adopted to help sustainable development in various countries, including China, few studies have been conducted to investigate the effectiveness and optimization of such policies in Chinese cities. Hangzhou, China, was chosen for this study as the research object, where the local authorities manage the urban sprawl via an urban development boundary policy. The institutional analysis and development (IAD) framework was employed to identify the conflicts between the central government and the local government as well as the developers and homebuyers in the formal/informal stage. The analysis shows that, with the implementation of the policy, problems such as fiscal crises, property inflation, and illegal construction will appear as a result of actors’ interactions. The study also highlights that industrial land transfer inside the boundary should be controlled in a reasonable range and that a land value tax should be introduced during the implementation of the urban development boundary policy.

scholarly journals Curbing Sprawl with Development-limiting Boundaries in Urban China: A Review of Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yizhao Yang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Yumin Ye ◽  
Zhifang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Policy Enforcement ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
China National Knowledge Infrastructure ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Word Search

Facing the need to control urban sprawl, many Chinese cities are exploring the use of development-limiting boundaries, such as urban growth boundary (UGB) and urban development boundary (UDB), as required by the central government. Through a key word search of several databases including Web of Science and China National Knowledge Infrastructure, we identified and reviewed hundreds of articles published in academic or professional journals. Our review shows that policy processes discussed in the literature have emphasized the technical aspect with analytical sophistication. We identified three types of approach to UGB and UDB in the literature: the growth-driven, the constraint-oriented, and the hybrid. While urban theories and modeling techniques that originated from Western countries have greatly influenced the analytical process underlying some of these approaches, the UGB/UDB policy debate and explorations were also responsive to China’s unique urban and policy conditions. Despite the rich empirical content in the literature, very little research has been grounded in a scientific understanding of China’s urban development. Issues such as intergovernmental coordination, policy enforcement, and evaluation were also inadequately addressed in the existing literature. The literature’s newness may have been a major factor for these limitations. Our critique of the current literature may inspire new areas of research to generate knowledge that can inform China’s continuous policy efforts to combat urban sprawl.

scholarly journals Delineation of the Urban-Rural Boundary through Data Fusion: Applications to Improve Urban and Rural Environments and Promote Intensive and Healthy Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 7180
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Xiaodie Yuan ◽  
Xueping Tan ◽  
Xue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Data Fusion ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Kappa Value ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

As one of the most important methods for limiting urban sprawl, the accurate delineation of the urban–rural boundary not only promotes the intensive use of urban resources, but also helps to alleviate the urban issues caused by urban sprawl, realizing the intensive and healthy development of urban cities. Previous studies on delineating urban–rural boundaries were only based on the level of urban and rural development reflected by night-time light (NTL) data, ignoring the differences in the spatial development between urban and rural areas; so, the comprehensive consideration of NTL and point of interest (POI) data can help improve the accuracy of urban–rural boundary delineation. In this study, the NTL and POI data were fused using wavelet transform, and then the urban–rural boundary before and after data fusion was delineated by multiresolution segmentation. Finally, the delineation results were verified. The verification result shows that the accuracy of delineating the urban–rural boundary using only NTL data is 84.20%, and the Kappa value is 0.6549; the accuracy using the fusion of NTL and POI data on the basis of wavelet transform is 93.2%, and the Kappa value is 0.8132. Therefore, we concluded that the proposed method of using wavelet transform to fuse NTL and POI data considers the differences between urban and rural development, which significantly improves the accuracy of the delineation of urban–rural boundaries. Accurate delineation of urban–rural boundaries is helpful for optimizing internal spatial structure in both urban and rural areas, alleviating environmental problems resulting from urban development, assisting the formulation of development policies for urban and rural fringes, and promoting the intensive and healthy development of urban areas.

Analysis of the Urban Environment Needs Based on the Residents’ Perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2766-2769
Author(s):  
Yong Chun Wu ◽  
Xin Kui Liu ◽  
Lian Feng Xu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
City Environment ◽  
The People ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
The City

Create a good city environment is an eternal theme of human development. The urbanization has brought not only economic and social development, but also urban sprawl and environmental damage, which make the city become a tool to complete various functions and no longer suitable for residents to live. A strange phenomenon appears that the more development of the city, the lower residents’ satisfaction to the urban environment. This article argues that meeting the needs of the people is the true meaning of urban development, and discusses the needs of the residents to the urban environment.

Monitoring Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Urban Development Using the Moran Index

2018 ◽  
pp. 561-581
Author(s):  
Walter Musakwa ◽  
Adriaan van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Spatial Statistics ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Spatial Weight ◽  
Cold Spots ◽  
Local Moran

The management of urban sprawl is fundamental to achieving sustainable urban development. Monitoring urban sprawl is, however, challenging. This study proposes the use of two spatial statistics, namely global Moran and local Moran to indentify statistically significant urban sprawl hot and cold spots. The findings reveal that the Moran indexes are sensitive to the distance band spatial weight matrices employed and that multiple bands should be used when these indexes are used. The authors demonstrate how the indexes can be used in combination with various visualisation methods to support planning decisions.

scholarly journals Microsimulation of Residential Activity for Alternative Urban Development Scenarios: A Case Study on Brussels and Flemish Brabant

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2370
Author(s):  
Frederik Priem ◽  
Philip Stessens ◽  
Frank Canters
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Demographic Projections ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Natural Land ◽  
Business As Usual

The historically rooted suburbanization of Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region (BCR) in Belgium has resulted in severe urban sprawl, traffic congestion, natural land degradation and many related problems. Recent policy proposals put forward by the two regions aim for more compact urban development in well-serviced areas. Yet, it is unclear how these proposed policies may impact residential dynamics over the coming decades. To address this issue, we developed a Residential Microsimulation (RM) framework that spatially refines coarse-scale demographic projections at the district level to the level of census tracts. The validation of simulated changes from 2001 to 2011 reveals that the proposed framework succeeds in modelling historic trends and clearly outperforms a random model. To support simulation from 2011 to 2040, two alternative urban development scenarios are defined. The Business As Usual (BAU) scenario essentially represents a continuation of urban sprawl development, whereas the Sustainable Development (SUS) scenario strives for higher-density development around strategic well-serviced nodes in line with proposed policies. This study demonstrates how residential microsimulation supported by scenario analysis can play a constructive role in urban policy design and evaluation.

Time-Lag Effects in Urban Environment Adaptation as a Warning System for Urban Growth Control: An Application to Flanders

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. van Naelten
Keyword(s):  
Factor Model ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Growth Control ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
Lag Effects ◽  
Environment Adaptation ◽  
Subsequent Measurement ◽  
Urban Growth Control ◽  
Urban Characteristics

In this paper we wish to discuss some aspects of a particular system approach in urban planning. An attempt has been made to explain the meaning of the first principal factor (Hotelling, 1933) in the verification of a set of supposed urban characteristics. The same factor model has been used in the subsequent measurement of the degree of urbanity in each municipal territory in Flanders. In mapping the results we have also attempted to verify some growth and communication theories for the Flanders case. Finally, the basic point of the paper is the detection of time-lag effects which create gaps between the slower development of more rigid environment elements, with which the planner is concerned, and the more quickly adapting elements—a time lag which could indicate urgent planning areas.

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