From development zones to edge urban areas in China: A case study of Nansha, Guangzhou City

Cheng, Hui; Liu, Yuting; He, Shenjing; Shaw, David

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.07.015

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“…There is a long history of FDI taking place in enclaves. Given the quantitative significance of FDI into China since the opening reforms and the extensive zoning of land for industry parks from the 1990s, new industry enclaves are found throughout China's urban fringes (Cheng et al ., 2017). Danweis contributed the majority of planned economy urbanization and constituted the suburbs of the day.…”

Section: Space Work Institutions and Life In Industry Enclaves Old mentioning

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From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan

Phelps¹,

Miao²,

Li³

et al. 2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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We thank colleagues who attended the 'Asia-Pacific by Design' seminar series at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne in 2019, and the 'Ageing Tigers' international workshop at Seoul National University also in 2019 for their comments, and are grateful to the IJURR handling editor and the referees for their constructive comments on previous drafts of this article.

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Section: Space Work Institutions and Life In Industry Enclaves Old mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan

Phelps¹,

Miao²,

Li³

et al. 2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Some Chinese cities have adopted a polycentric urban development strategy as part of their master plans (e.g. the “peri-urban region” planning in Beijing (Zhao, 2013) and the “edge urban areas” in Guangzhou (Cheng et al., 2017)). Against this background, we aim to empirically analyze whether polycentric cities are more attractive in China regarding the quantity and the variety of urban amenities.…”

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Polycentric urban development and urban amenities: Evidence from Chinese cities

Wang

2020

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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The recent literature on the “consumer city” and the “love of variety” argues that the provision of urban amenities makes a city more attractive. Meanwhile, polycentric urban development has been highlighted by academics and policymakers as a sustainable urban development regime, although its purported benefits need to be further investigated. Against this background, this paper empirically examines the relationship between polycentricity and the provision of urban amenities in 309 Chinese cities. After controlling for the size, population density, wage, and human capital, this paper finds that a higher degree of intra-urban polycentricity is associated with a larger number of urban amenities. Additionally, when all the covariates above are held, a higher degree of intra-urban polycentricity is associated with a greater diversity of urban amenities. Robust checks show that these findings are consistent with different polycentricity indices and diversity measures. Finally, possible explanations of the relationship between intra-urban polycentricity and urban amenities are provided from both the producer and consumer perspectives.

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“…Although the government strongly supports the construction of traffic facilities, public services lag behind due to the single industrial development function, which leads to a poor attraction of highly skilled labors [46,47]. The planned new towns are in a similar situation, although they are much better than the development zones.…”

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Polycentric Development and the Role of Urban Polycentric Planning in China’s Mega Cities: An Examination of Beijing’s Metropolitan Area

Liu

2018

Sustainability

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An emerging polycentric spatial structure in China's mega cities has been confirmed in the literature, but few studies have addressed the linkage between the change in spatial structure and urban development policies. Using Beijing as a case study, this paper examines the role of urban polycentric planning in the polycentric evolution process from a morphological perspective. We observed that urban polycentric planning significantly promoted the emergence of a polycentric urban form in Beijing's metropolitan area from 2001 to 2010. Firstly, most of the planned subcenters were identified as real employment subcenters by a relative threshold method in 2001 and 2010 and comprised the majority of the employment subcenters. Secondly, the planned subcenters significantly increased their employment share and influence on employment and population distribution from 2001 to 2010, and their performances referring to these aspects were much better than the unplanned subcenters. Thus, our findings provide evidence that changes in urban spatial structure can be strongly affected by urban development policies, although it is determined by market forces in theory.

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From development zones to edge urban areas in China: A case study of Nansha, Guangzhou City

Cited by 50 publications

References 33 publications

From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan

From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan

Polycentric urban development and urban amenities: Evidence from Chinese cities

Polycentric Development and the Role of Urban Polycentric Planning in China’s Mega Cities: An Examination of Beijing’s Metropolitan Area

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