High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations

Wenner, Fabian; Thierstein, Alain

doi:10.1080/09654313.2021.1946485

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“…Some progress has been made in the European case of the impact of HSR on urban land use. European research results tend to be refined analyses within a certain buffer zone of HSR stations or corridors [13,14,28,35], while the results of this research are based on the macro-scale of cities. Shen et al [28] found that HSR stations in Madrid had improved regional accessibility and promoted urban expansion.…”

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“…The reason may be related to the number of samples, or the city size has different standards in different countries. Wenner et al [35] found that HSR stations at different distances from the city center have different urban land distribution intensities within the buffer zone. Our results also found that the opening of HSR and HSR frequency have a heterogeneous impact on urban expansion of different urban agglomerations and cities of different sizes.…”

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“…In addition, the center of gravity of urban land shifted to the HSR station. Wenner et al [35] found that the location of HSR stations has a significant impact on the evolution of land use, and an example is that HSR stations on the fringe of cities in Europe have stronger urban land expansion. Based on empirical tests of panel data from 65 cities of different sizes in China, Wang et al [33] found that in a sample of cities with high accessibility, the rapid development of HSR had a significant inhibitory effect on urban sprawl.…”

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The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China

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High-speed railway (HSR) promote the efficient flow of the population and materials between cities and have profoundly affected urban economic development in China. However, there is currently limited research about how HSR influences urban expansion, especially related to the variable impacts on different urban agglomerations, different size cities, and the conversion of non-urban land to urban land. In this study, from two levels of regional heterogeneity and type heterogeneity, a multi-stage difference-in-differences (multi-stage DID) model and land use remote sensing data are used to investigate these research areas. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) The first opening of HSR had a more significant role in promoting urban expansion than HSR frequency, but several years after opening, HSR no longer promotes urban expansion. (2) The opening of HSR only played a significant role in promoting urban expansion in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei. HSR frequency had a significant role in promoting urban expansion in the Yangtze River Delta. (3) The opening of HSR had no significant impact on urban expansion for different size cities, and HSR frequency only had a significant negative impact on urban expansion of small cities. (4) The first opening of HSR led to urban expansion dominated by the occupation of cultivated land. Cities in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia mainly converted barren land and vegetation cover to urban land after the first opening of HSR. In northeast China, the first opening of HSR made the conversion of vegetation cover and cultivated land to urban land roughly equivalent in size. The results of this study are helpful to understand the impact of the first opening of HSR and the scale of conversion of different types of non-urban land into urban land on urban expansion. In the era of HSR, these findings provide a valuable reference for regional planning and preventing the disorderly expansion of cities.

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“…In that context, many researchers have discussed effective policy structures and methodologies to create urban form compactness (Bibri, 2020;Bibri, Krogstie, et al, 2020;Korthals Altes and Tambach, 2008), as well as the compact model's contribution to sustainability (Iizuka, Xuan et al, 2020;Wang, Liu, et al, 2021) and compact city theories' effect on urban expansion in areas with population growth (Xu, Zhou et al, 2020). In addition, studies clarifying the possibility of proactive land use within a station's immediate sphere and accessibility to a station in line with walkability have been conducted (Lyu, Bertolini, et al, 2020;Wenner and Thierstein, 2021). These are critical perspectives when questioning the pros and cons of compact city policies and TOD theory.…”

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The Possibility of Reorganising Transit-oriented Development

Aoki

2022

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There has been much discussion about the shift to compact cities in the last decade. Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been introduced in many countries to promote compact cities. However, low density occurs with heterogeneous and random spatial patterns. It impedes the creation of peoplefriendly, sustainable cities, making it challenging to attract the investments necessary to create a compact city's core. This phenomenon is a serious issue during periods of population decline. Therefore, this paper clarifies the occurrence pattern of low-density districts around railway stations and their related spatial characteristics to understand better how to reorganize transitoriented urban structures in a society with a declining population. We have observed the population demographic and household demographic change beside railway lines of the Keihanshin conurbation within the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan region, the second-largest urban area in Japan. Our research questions are "Do low-density populations exist in railway station areas?", and "If yes, are they concentrated at a particular point or dispersed?" The results of our research are as follows; 1. Some railway stations are experiencing low density growth in their surrounding areas. 2. Thirteen patterns of low-density appearance in the station sphere are observed. 3. Stations with low densification disperse, but at a relatively lower ratio in the inter-urban area. 4. There are three primary routes for low density progression. These results will be helpful in future urban planning, including site optimization, and can help attract facilities and mutual support between regions.

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“…Other works focus on the economic influence of both infrastructures with respect to the territorial areas where they are located, making special reference to their contribution to GDP and their capacity to generate employment (Yu et al 2019;Zhang and Graham 2020). There are even studies that focus on the economic and territorial dynamics that emerge in the surroundings of these infrastructures because these are particularly relevant urban indicators of development in the 21st century (Yang et al 2018;Wenner and Thierstein 2021), especially with the emergence of new facilities, services, and sources of income (commercial, industrial, and recreational uses, especially). In this context, the tertiary sector has found an ideal location in HSR stations, but especially in airports, which act as a powerful magnet for attracting companies specialised in information technology and communications and other high-tech industries, especially interested in shortening production cycles and speeding up delivery times (just in time) (Conventz and Thierstein 2014) .3) These infrastructures, therefore, offer possibilities for improving their surrounding neighbourhoods, either through the remodelling or new construction of HSR stations and airports.…”

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High-Speed Rail Stations and Airports: Symbolic Infrastructures of Mobility as “Places of Globalisation”

Díez-Pisonero¹

2022

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In the current era of mobility, airports and high-speed train stations have turned into necessary infrastructures of any world city. Beyond connecting places physically and energising economically the cities in which they are located, they play a prominent role in the consolidation and maintenance of world cities, as they are also symbolic facilities, linked to dominant leisure-consumption practices. This more immaterial perspective is

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High speed rail as urban generator? An analysis of land use change around European stations

Cited by 31 publications

References 69 publications

The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China

The Heterogeneous Impact of High-Speed Railway on Urban Expansion in China

The Possibility of Reorganising Transit-oriented Development

High-Speed Rail Stations and Airports: Symbolic Infrastructures of Mobility as “Places of Globalisation”

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