China's urban geography

Pannell, Clifton W.

doi:10.1177/030913259001400202

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“…The patterns of China's urbanization have been studied extensively, principally by geographers (Ma and Hanten, 1982;Kirkby, 1985;Kwok et al, 1990;Pannell, 1990;Cui et al, 1992;Guldin, 1992;Yeung and Hu, 1992;Chan, 1994;Zhou, 1995). Before we outline the salient features of China's urbanization, it is useful to distinguish two related concepts: suburban development and suburbanization.…”

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Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China

Zhou¹,

Laurence²

2000

Urban Geography

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As in other countries, suburbanization in China occurred after the cities had experienced a period of sustained industrial and population growth. This study examines suburbanization in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Dalian. As a result of economic restructuring, the urban core registered net population loss from 1982 to 1990 because of decentralization while the inner suburbs gained population. Among the forces driving suburbanization were marketization of urban land, the shift of industrial land to tertiary use, transportation improvement, the availability of foreign and domestic capital, housing rehabilitation in the city, and new housing construction in the suburbs. There were certain similarities but major differences between American and Chinese suburbanization. Unlike the current metropolitan landscape in the United States where suburban growth has given rise to a polycentric spatial structure, suburbanization in China is still at the incipient stage of development with suburbs dominated by central cities. The role of the state in China has been more direct and powerful in setting the suburbanization process in motion. [

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Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China

Zhou¹,

Laurence²

2000

Urban Geography

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150

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“…A large body of literature exists on the positive relationship between urban and industrial growth in China (Kirkby, 1985 ;Murphey, 1980 ;Chan, 1992 ;Pannell, 1990) . However, deliberate industrialisation in China does not entail deliberate urbanisation .…”

Section: Industrialisation and Urbanisationmentioning

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Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

1994

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Urbanisation in China during the Maoist period was largely a consequence of centralised planning and Soviet-type industrialisation dominated by the growth of cities . The towns lost their commercial function and stagnated . Since the reforms of 1978, the growth of towns has emerged as a new force of Chinese urbanisation . This case study of the growth of towns in Jiangsu province shows that enterprises in the towns have attracted a large number of daily commuters and some migrants, resulting in a more diversified pattern of population composition in the towns. The population of the towns is growing at a faster rate than the city population . Manufacturing dominates the employment structure of the designated towns, including county capitals, as well as the rural market towns . The central government of China has not played any active role in the growth of towns . If the towns and town enterprises are allowed to grow for an extended period of time, they may lead to the emergence of a more powerful track of `urbanisation from below' to accompany the established track of 'urbanisation from above' .

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“…In China, one of the largest developing countries reSpatio-temporal Analysis of Urban Spatial Interaction in Globalizing China 127 cently re-integrated itself with the globalizing world, and there is a large body of literature focusing on the emergence of "urban growth" or "super urban agglomeration" in the country as a result of the intrusion of global forces (Kirkby, 1985;Pannell, 1990;Gaubatz, 1999). However, relatively little is understood about the fundamental processes of urban spatial interaction unfolding in China in the current era of globalization temporally and spatially.…”

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Spatio-temporal analysis of urban spatial interaction in globalizing China—A case study of Beijing-Shanghai Corridor

Zhang

Jin

et al. 2009

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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This paper aims to explore urban geography with a new perspective. Endowed with the urban geography connotations, an improved data field model is employed to integrate temporal dimension into spatial process of cities in a typical region in this article. Taking the Beijing-Shanghai Corridor including 18 cities as an example, the authors chose the city centricity index (CCI) and the spatial data field model to analyze the evolution process and features of sub-region and urban spatial interaction in this corridor based on the data of 1991, 1996 and 2002. Through the analysis, we found that: 1) with the improvement of the urbanization level and the development of urban economy, the cities' CCI grew, the urban spatial radiative potential enhanced and the radiative range expanded gradually, which reflects the urban spatial interaction's intensity has been increasing greatly; 2) although the spatial interaction intensity among the cities and sub-regions in the Beijing-Shanghai Corridor was growing constantly, the gap of the spatial interaction strength among different cities and sub-regions was widening, and the spatial division between the developed areas and the less developed areas was obvious; and 3) the intensity of the spatial interaction of Beijing, Shanghai and their urban agglomerations was far greater than that in small cities of other parts of the corridor, and it may have a strong drive force on the choice of spatial location of the economic activities.

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China's urban geography

Cited by 55 publications

References 39 publications

Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China

Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China

Urbanisation from Below: The Growth of Towns in Jiangsu, China

Spatio-temporal analysis of urban spatial interaction in globalizing China—A case study of Beijing-Shanghai Corridor

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