scholarly journals Unbalanced Development Characteristics and Driving Mechanisms of Regional Urban Spatial form: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3121
Author(s):  
Guoping Xiong ◽  
Xin Cao ◽  
Nicholas A. S. Hamm ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Guoqin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Spatial Expansion ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Urbanization Level ◽  
Driving Mechanisms ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Southern Jiangsu

Unbalanced regional development is widespread, and the imbalance of regional development in developing countries with rapid urbanization is increasingly apparent. This threatens the sustainable development of the region. Promoting the coordinated development of the region has become a hot spot of scientific research and a major practical need. Taking 99 counties of Jiangsu Province China, a typical coastal plain region, as the basic research unit, this paper explores the unbalanced development characteristics of the regional urban spatial form using three indicators: urban spatial expansion size, development intensity, and distribution aggregation degree. Then, their driving mechanisms were evaluated using spatial autocorrelation analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, linear regression, and geographically weighted regression. Our results found that the areas with larger urban spatial expansion size and development intensity were mainly concentrated in southern Jiangsu, where there was a positive spatial correlation between them. We found no agglomeration phenomenon in urban spatial distribution aggregation degree. From the perspective of driving factors: economics was the main driving factor of urban spatial expansion size; urbanization level and urbanization quality were the main driving factors of urban spatial development intensity. Natural landform and urbanization level are the main driving factors of urban spatial distribution aggregation degree. Finally, we discussed the optimization strategy of regional coordinated development. The quality of urbanization development and regional integration should be promoted in Southern Jiangsu. The level of urbanization development should be improved relying on rapid transportation to develop along the axis in central Jiangsu. The economic size should be increased, focusing on the expansion of the urban agglomeration in northern Jiangsu. This study will enrich the perspective of research on the characteristics and mechanisms of regional urban spatial imbalance, and helps to optimize and regulate the imbalance of regional urban development from multiple perspectives.

scholarly journals Internal Coordinated Development of China's Urbanization and its Spatiotemporal Evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangzhen Zang ◽  
Yiqing Su
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Western China ◽  
Spatiotemporal Evolution ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Urbanization Development ◽  
Coordination Degree

High urbanization quality, predominantly determined by the degree of internal coordinated development, is the most important factor in promoting urbanization development. Based on the panel data of 283 Chinese cities from 2007 to 2016, this paper analysed the internal coordination degree, spatial distribution and spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization using the methods of range standardization, entropy, and coupling and coordination models, as well as exploratory spatial data analysis. We found the following results: (1) The internal coordination degree of China’s urbanization was at a low level for a long time, but it presented a gradually increasing trend; (2) The internal coordinated development of urbanization exhibited an obvious spatial agglomeration. Specifically, it displayed a stepped pattern with a higher internal coordination degree in eastern China, a lower degree in western China, and a spatial distribution with multi-centre agglomeration and diffusion. (3) The spatial distribution of the internal coordinated development of urbanization was stable in most regions of China, only changing in a few. (4) The growth rate of the internal coordination degree of China’s urbanization presented the pattern of a dotted distribution, while the growth rate in western China was higher than in central and eastern China. The spatiotemporal evolution relates to the policies changes of China’s urbanization. In particular, the urbanization in China transfers its focus from population transfer to the development of quality from 2007 to 2016. To promote the sustainable and healthy development of China's new urbanization, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta shall focus on accelerating the transformation of economic development mode; The provinces located around the above three regions shall strengthen the upgrading and promotion of basic public services. The northeast and central provinces shall speed up the innovation of systems and mechanisms and gradually release the potential of urbanization development by promoting the mobility of urban population, and the vast majority of provinces in Western China shall further improve the spatial development potential for urbanization.

scholarly journals Spatial expansion regular pattern and driving factors of estuarine and coastal harbors

2022 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 105980
Author(s):  
Zeyang Li ◽  
Weixin Luan ◽  
Xintong Wang ◽  
Shulin Wan ◽  
Min Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Driving Factors ◽  
Regular Pattern ◽  
Spatial Expansion

scholarly journals Spatial-Temporal Divergence and Driving Mechanisms of Urban-Rural Sustainable Development: An Empirical Study Based on Provincial Panel Data in China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1027
Author(s):  
Chao Wei ◽  
Zuo Zhang ◽  
Sheng Ye ◽  
Mengxi Hong ◽  
Wenwen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Driving Factors ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Strong Positive Correlation ◽  
Driving Mechanisms ◽  
Rural Revitalization ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Coordination Degree ◽  
New Urbanization

China’s long-standing urban-rural dichotomy has led to a widening gap between urban and rural areas, posing a huge challenge to the sustainable development of Chinese society. This paper adopted the subjective-objective weighting method, coupled coordination degree model, and geographically weighted regression model to conduct urban-rural sustainable development research on 31 provincial administrative regions in China and discussed their spatial-temporal divergence and driving mechanisms during 2007–2018. The results showed that (1) the quality of both rural revitalization and new urbanization improved during the study period, and the gap between them showed a trend of increasing after fluctuations. Both of them had significant spatial and temporal divergence characteristics. (2) The urban-rural coupling coordination degree in China continued to increase during the study period and showed an overall pattern of “high in the east-west and low in the north and southwest”. The changes of relative development type indicated that new urbanization had far surpassed rural revitalization during the study period. (3) The coefficients of driving factors varied significantly in space, showing a hierarchical band distribution. Seven of the eight driving factors showed a strong positive correlation in the vast majority of regions. The results and suggestions of this research can further promote the organic combination of rural revitalization and new urbanization strategy, which is of great practical significance for narrowing the urban-rural gap and realizing sustainable urban-rural development. Likewise, it can be a reference for other developing countries around the world.

A study on the spatial distribution of the renewable energy industries in China and their driving factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wang ◽  
Mei-Po Kwan ◽  
Jie Fan ◽  
Kan Zhou ◽  
Ya-Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Driving Factors

scholarly journals Quantitative evaluation and analysis on the coordinated development of the urbanization and ecological environment in Xining city

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 01051
Author(s):  
Jun Ye
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Stable State ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Summation Method ◽  
Ecological Environment ◽  
Coordinated Development ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Urbanization Level ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Coordination Degree

Taking Xining City as the research area, the index system of coordinated development of urbanization and ecological environment in Xining City is constructed by combining qualitative and quantitative methods. The index and comprehensive index scores are obtained by using analytic hierarchy process and weighted summation method, and the coordination degree between urbanization and ecological environment in Xining City whose evolution trend is evaluated and analyzed is quantified by combining the coordination degree model. The results show that the urbanization level of Xining has been on the rise in the past 10 years from 2008 to 2017, and after the urbanization level of Xining has been improved, the eco-environmental quality index, although which has a characteristics of fluctuation, has been also on the rise as a whole. From the analysis of coordination degree, the coordination degree showed a downward trend year by year from 2008 to 2012, in which the coordination value in 2010, 2011 and 2012 were below 0.4, showing a moderate imbalance state; from 2013 to 2017, the coordination degree showed a rising trend year by year, and showed a relatively stable state.

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