Spatial patterns, gray spacing, and planning policy implications

Manufacturing space is a spatial system that combines the interaction between capital and institutions at the enterprise, industry, and spatial levels. It is also an important functional type that promotes the spatial evolution of big cities. Most studies focus on the effects of a single institutional type on the manufacturing space of big cities and lack systematic and complete exploration of the institutional mechanism. Current empirical research on typical industrial cities in China is insufficient. This study uses a GIS spatial analysis technique and a Poisson regression model to analyze the mechanism by which institutions have influenced the spatial patterns of manufacturing industries in the Wuhan metropolitan area since the 1990s. The results show that land policy, development zone policy, urban planning, transportation strategy, and eco-environmental policy all have a significant impact on the restructuring process and distribution pattern of the manufacturing industries through incentives and constraints. This study expands our understanding of the influence mechanism of manufacturing spatial patterns and proposes spatial guiding strategies and policy implications for the spatial transformation of urban manufacturing.

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The Exurbanization of America and Its Planning Policy Implications

Journal of Planning Education and Research ◽

10.1177/0739456x9000900201 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 91-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Arthur C. Nelson ◽

Kenneth J. Dueker

Keyword(s):

Policy Implications ◽

Planning Policy

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Landscape as Connecting Link of Nature and Culture: Spatial Planning Policy Implications in Greece

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci3030081 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 81 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Stella Sofia Kyvelou ◽

Anestis Gourgiotis

Keyword(s):

Spatial Planning ◽

Landscape Planning ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Council Of Europe ◽

Planning Policy ◽

Management Actions ◽

Nature And Culture ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Catalytic Role

The research paper investigates the diverse understandings of “landscape”, along with demonstrating the modes of contribution of the European Landscape Convention (ELC) of the Council of Europe (CE) in influencing national spatial planning systems. The paper, interested in considering the efficiency of landscape policy from a territorial perspective, briefly outlines the perception and understanding of landscape as connecting link of nature and culture and conducts a literature review with the aim to support the prospect of a «European model of landscape planning». Lastly, it critically examines the approach to landscape planning and management by the Greek state, revealing the catalytic role of the Council of Europe (CE) in activating the dimension of landscape in Greece, in a mutualistic perspective between environmental policy and spatial planning, mainly through strategic spatial planning tools (i.e., the Regional Spatial Plans, RSPs). The results point out that (a) the ELC gave new impetus to spatial planning in Greece, providing the tool to manage and coordinate landscape policy, positively influencing the evolving spatial planning paradigm; (b) the decentralized approach adopted, identified landscapes of particular value at a regional level, so as to be given priority in terms of the implementation of coordinated governance arrangements and management actions. However, the implementation of landscape policy continues to rely on the underlying spatial planning level (Local Spatial Plans, Special Spatial Plans) and a general conclusion is that both on land and on sea, it depends on the incorporation of evolutionary trends in planning including an evolutionary perspective for landscape itself, viewed as a complex social-ecological system.

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Adelaide's aged population: Changing spatial patterns and their policy implications

Urban Policy and Research ◽

10.1080/08111148408522634 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 17-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Graeme J. Hugo ◽

Dianne M. Rudd ◽

Malcolm C. Downie

Keyword(s):

Spatial Patterns ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Aged Population

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Exploring urban green spaces in China: Spatial patterns, driving factors and policy implications

Land Use Policy ◽

10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104249 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 104249 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ze Xu ◽

Zhengfeng Zhang ◽

Chu Li

Keyword(s):

Spatial Patterns ◽

Driving Factors ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces

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Spatial Patterns of Urban Expansion in Chinese Cities

Abstracts of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-abs-1-419-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Jing Yao ◽

Ya Ping Wang ◽

Xiaoxiang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Spatial Patterns ◽

Urban Form ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Western China ◽

City Development ◽

Chinese Cities ◽

The City

Abstract. China has experienced high rate urbanization in recent years, with urban population increased from 460 to 750 million and the built-up area of metropolis expanded by almost 60% since 2000. Urban landscape has been dramatically changed by intensified inner-city development and urban sprawl. In recent years, the changes in urban form has transformed from expansion to restructuring. A good understanding of urban expansion and spatial restructuring as a consequence of urbanization has important policy implications, enhancing the knowledge of spatial variations in urban growth in transitional Chinese cities and assisting with sustainable urban and regional planning.Using the Landsat satellite images from 1995 to 2015, this research explores urban expansion and its spatial patterns in second-tier Chinese cities, taking Tianjin, Hangzhou and Chengdu as examples, which are the leaders in the urbanization in Northern, Eastern and Western China, respectively. The study area includes the city proper in the three case study cities. Figure 1 shows the expansion of urban area in the three cities over the study time period. By visual inspection, it can be observed that the spatial pattern of urban land use growth varies across the three cities. For example, Tianjin has been largely expanding towards the east, particularly the Tianjin Binhai New Area, which has been rapidly developed into a new city core. The city of Chengdu seems having been expanding toward all directions of the surrounding area, integrated with the adjacent towns into a larger urban agglomeration. Further work will focus on quantitative analysis of the spatial patterns of urban expansion using geographical information system (GIS)-based spatial analytics, as well as the association between urban expansion and socioeconomic changes, with a reflection on the role of national/local policies.

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