Emerging Chinese new towns: Local government-directed capital switching in inland China

Yin, Guanwen; Liu, Yungang; Wang, Fenglong

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.02.026

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“…Second, urban designers and planners should realize that the advantages of a street network configuration cannot be determined on a single scale. On the contrary, various travel modes should be considered, taking into account the healthy dietary needs of different groups of people, and promoting the improvement of urban quality ( 59 ). The results of our study indicate key factors that need to be considered in the construction of a healthy urban environment, and provide a useful reference for urban space optimization.…”

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Street centrality and vitality of a healthy catering industry: A case study of Jinan, China

Chen

Yin

Hou

2022

Front. Public Health

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In the context of an overall improvement in the national economy, residents' demand for nutrition and health has been increasing. An industry that provides healthy eating plays an increasingly important role in urban development. Few studies, however, have focused on the relationship between the urban road network structure and the vitality of the healthy catering industry (VHCI). Based on social media data and urban traffic network data, in this study, we explored the impact mechanism of street centrality on the VHCI through a case study of Jinan, China, using geographic detectors and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) methods. The results show the following: First, the vitality of the catering industry in the main urban area of Jinan has multicore spatial distribution characteristics, and the high-value areas of the vitality of the catering industry are highly matched with the main business districts in the city in space. Second, we found clear spatial differences in street centrality between the walking and driving modes. With an increase in the search radius, the trend of high-value areas closely gathering in the urban center became clearer. The distribution of betweenness was observed from sheet to grid, and the multicenter structure of straightness was more prominent. Third, differences in the residents' perception of the road network structure caused by different travel modes affected their choice of dining places. In the driving mode, betweenness and straightness had a greater impact on the vitality of the catering industry, and the effect of closeness in the walking mode was more obvious. Fourth, the influence of street centrality on the vitality of the healthy catering industry had obvious spatial heterogeneity. In the walking mode, the spatial heterogeneity of straightness was the strongest, followed by betweenness, and closeness was the weakest; in the driving mode, the spatial heterogeneity of closeness was the strongest, followed by straightness, and betweenness was the weakest. From the perspective of residents' travel, the results of this study revealed the influence mechanism of urban road network characteristics on the VHCI. This information can aid planning for urban space optimization and improve residential living quality.

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Section: Planning Implicationsmentioning

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Street centrality and vitality of a healthy catering industry: A case study of Jinan, China

Chen

Yin

Hou

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Decentralization is also an important feature of China's economic transformation. China's decentralization process endows local governments with more independent development rights and also makes local governments bear the responsibility of regional economic development (Yin et al 2018). At present, there are mainly three views on the effect of decentralization on IEE.…”

Section: Economic Transformation and Ieementioning

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Industrial ecological efficiency of cities in the Yellow River Basin in the background of China’s economic transformation: spatial-temporal characteristics and influencing factors

Song

Yin

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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At present, China's economic development has entered a "new normal." Exploring Industrial ecological efficiency (IEE) in the background of economic transformation is of great significance to promote China's industrial transformation and upgrading and achieving high-quality economic development. Based on the Super-Efficiency DEA model, this study evaluated the IEE of cities in the Yellow River Basin from 2008 to 2017. Exploratory spatial data analysis methods were used to explore the spatial-temporal evolutionary characteristics, and a panel regression model was established to explore the influencing factors of IEE. The research results showed that: The IEE in the Yellow River Basin exhibited an elongated S-shaped evolutionary trend from 2008 to 2017, and the mean IEE of cities presented a trend whereby Yellow River Basin's regions could be ranked in the following order: lower reaches > middle reaches > upper reaches. There was significant spatial autocorrelation of the IEE in the Yellow River Basin, and the hot and cold spots showed an obvious "spatial clubs" phenomenon. The results of panel regression show that the influence factors of IEE in the Yellow River Basin showed spatial heterogeneity in their effect.

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“…Typically, “the new town's governing body was provided with new territorial power on top of the preexisting, ordinary administration division” (Wang, Chao and Li 2020). Yin, Liu, and Wang propose the theory of “local government-directed capital switching” (Yin, Liu, and Wang 2018, 103) to interpret the unique financial model. Lin highlights that these projects are “characterized by top-down process of planning and development” and suggests the lack of attention to the bottom-up public engagement, which is echoed by Zhou and Hann (Lin 2018, 100; Zhou and de Hann 2010, 258).…”

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China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

2021

Journal of Planning Literature

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In the past forty years, more than 3,800 new towns emerged and accommodated over 150 million urban inhabitants in China, which drew much attention since they were reported as “ghost cities” by media in the late 2000s. This literature review examines existing research and synthesizes current discussions through a meta-analysis. It concludes that existing literature, led by environmental scientists and designers, exhibits two polarized debates around the new towns’ uniqueness and the future of ghost cities. Gaps exist in national-scale surveys, criticism of planning methodology, and theories that can explain the current disputes.

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Emerging Chinese new towns: Local government-directed capital switching in inland China

Cited by 38 publications

References 59 publications

Street centrality and vitality of a healthy catering industry: A case study of Jinan, China

Street centrality and vitality of a healthy catering industry: A case study of Jinan, China

Industrial ecological efficiency of cities in the Yellow River Basin in the background of China’s economic transformation: spatial-temporal characteristics and influencing factors

China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

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