A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities

Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano; Sckokai, Paolo

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.023

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“…The classical regression model is mostly used to analyze the influencing factors of ULUE. However, due to factors such as industrial connections, trade exchanges, and technology diffusion among regions, the ULUE will be affected by spatial polarization effects or diffusion effects [ 46 ]. Therefore, empirical studies that ignored the spatial correlation could not manifest reliable results.…”

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Spatio-Econometric Analysis of Urban Land Use Efficiency in China from the Perspective of Natural Resources Input and Undesirable Outputs: A Case Study of 287 Cities in China

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Yin-ying

2020

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The rapid urbanization in China has had a huge impact on land use and the scarcity of land resources has become a constraint for sustainable urban development. As urban land is an indispensable material basis in economic development, measuring its use efficiency and adopting effective policies to improve urban land use efficiency (ULUE) are important links in maintaining sustainable economic growth. By establishing a comprehensive ULUE evaluation index system that emphasizes on incorporating the natural resources input and the undesirable output, ULUE from 2010 to 2016 was calculated based on super efficiency SBM model, and its potential influencing factors were explored using a spatial econometric model. The results show that: (1) temporally, the overall ULUE in China is upward growing, and the gap among regions is becoming gradually convergent. (2) Spatially, the ULUE of Chinese cities are positively correlated. (3) Economic agglomeration and industrial structure significantly improve ULUE in China, but the intensity of energy consumption has a negative impact on ULUE. We suggest that: (1) differentiated industrial development strategies should be formulated; (2) the economic growth pattern should be changed from energy-consuming to energy-saving; (3) priority should be given to innovation on science and education, so as to increase in clean energy input and cleaner production.

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Spatio-Econometric Analysis of Urban Land Use Efficiency in China from the Perspective of Natural Resources Input and Undesirable Outputs: A Case Study of 287 Cities in China

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Yin-ying

2020

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“…The spatial expansion of built-up areas is usually in response to the increase in demand for housing caused by a growing population [18], but increasing evidence documents how weak this relationship is in some circumstances. In modern cities, the demand for housing shifted from the centres to the peripheries, where the housing cost per square metre is lower because more land is available at a lower price, generating low-and very low-density suburban zones [19]. Furthermore, modern societies are moving towards lifestyles that consume more and more space per inhabitant [8] because people's living preferences for the contiguity to open spaces and for detached houses increasingly determine the fragmentation of the landscape [20].…”

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Patterns of Urban Spatial Expansion in European Cities

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In representing urban sprawl, the decline in population and employment density from the city centre to the periphery has been identified as the main character associated with the spatial expansion of built-up areas. Urban spatial discontinuity, which occurs when the urban fabric includes built-up or green areas and a relevant share of vacant spaces, has gained recent attention. In this paper, we use Global Human Settlement Layer data to track urbanisation dynamics in European Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) from 1990 to 2014. We represent urban sprawl as the spatial expansion of FUAs associated with either or both declining population density and increasing built-up area discontinuity. We also consider the association with the demographic trends that have been described as the primary driver of urban spatial expansion. We use configural frequency analysis to explore the local association between the different characters of sprawl. We found evidence that urban sprawl effectively took differentiated forms across European FUAs. Even though FUAs have generally become less dense and more disperse, our results show that the extent of these phenomena appears to be more contained in recent years than in previous decades. Both elements of sprawl characterise FUAs with a shrinking population, confirming the decoupling of urban development policies and demographic trends in cities. The results call for better controlled urban development, favouring compact cities and subjecting land-use changes to a perspective of urban population growth.

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“…However, since this a discretional choice, its validity is tested empirically (results in the appendix) also to assess the robustness of the results. (Guastella et al, 2017) demonstrates that small cities have, on average, higher marginal land consumptions.…”

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Institutional Fragmentation and Urbanisation in the EU Cities

2020

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This article examines the relationship between institutional fragmentation and the spatial extent of cities in Europe's Functional Urban Areas. European Union planning regulations vary across member states, but in most cases, local authorities determine land use within the more general regulatory frameworks set by national or subnational authorities. More decentralised and fragmented settings may favour urban sprawl, allowing developers to avoid land-use restrictions in one municipality by moving to adjacent ones and providing incentives for municipalities to adopt less strict land-conversion regulations to attract households and workers. The empirical results fully support this hypothesis and unveil significant differences between small and large cities, the effect of governance fragmentation being a substantial factor in the latter case.

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A spatial econometric analysis of land use efficiency in large and small municipalities

Abstract: We estimate the relationship between urban spatial expansion and its socio-economic

Cited by 69 publications

References 40 publications

Spatio-Econometric Analysis of Urban Land Use Efficiency in China from the Perspective of Natural Resources Input and Undesirable Outputs: A Case Study of 287 Cities in China

Spatio-Econometric Analysis of Urban Land Use Efficiency in China from the Perspective of Natural Resources Input and Undesirable Outputs: A Case Study of 287 Cities in China

Patterns of Urban Spatial Expansion in European Cities

Institutional Fragmentation and Urbanisation in the EU Cities

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