Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China

Li, Lei; Ma, Shaojun; Yuan, Zheng; Xiao, Xinyue

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105939

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“…Much research has tried to evaluate the integration degree of urban agglomeration to assess its socio-economic effects yet it has not reached a consensus because the connotation of regional integration is considerably rich and evolving continuously. Whereas some attempts from the single dimension were made, for example, the relative price variance of products [48,49], the labor wage gap in the market [50], regional economic disparities [51], and the existence of qualitative policy implementation [52,53] have made progress because of its specialized and easy application. In particular, the relative price variance method is used quite frequently, about which scholars nearly have no dispute.…”

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Exploring the Spatiotemporal Integration Evolution of the Urban Agglomeration through City Networks

Fang

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Regional integration is a global trend and an integrated region consists of different cities of different sizes and functions, against which researching their organized structure is an important issue when discussing regional coordinated development. So, we construct the city networks, among which cities and their linkages are regarded as nodes and connections, to explore the spatial characteristics of a region and evaluate the integration level. The Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration (YRDUA) is taken as the study area. For city nodes, this paper first evaluates the cities’ qualities comprehensively based on the multidimensional indicators during the rapid cities’ developmental period from 2005 to 2019. For city linkages, the interactions between different cities are then assessed by the improved gravity model. Then, the city networks consisting of city nodes and their linkages are constructed and analyzed by the social network analysis to deeply understand the orientations and relationships of cities in an integrated region. The results show that the developmental pace of different cities is imbalanced. The overall network of the YRDUA is relatively compact of the city-pair linkages forming the overlapping structure from primary to secondary axes, and different cities have specific functions. However, some small cities do not reach a mutual connection with big cities and face the risk of social resource outflow. In conclusion, attention to the existence of latent hierarchy should be paid to avoid the marginalization of small cities, especially under administrative intervention. The findings can enrich research on cities′ relationship and integration level of the YRDUA, and the specific characteristics of spatial organization paralleling with the leading development of the YRDUA can provide the reference to other regions under the strategy of national regional coordination.

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Exploring the Spatiotemporal Integration Evolution of the Urban Agglomeration through City Networks

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“…The connotation of regional integration is extremely complex, involving politics, economy, society, ecology, and culture [6,8,26]. As an advanced evolution type of spatial organization form, regional integration mainly takes factor integration and industrial integration as the core process and key link.…”

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How Regional Integration Affects Urban Green Development Efficiency: Evidence from Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

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Unlocking the relationship between regional integration and urban green development efficiency (UGDE) is of great importance for boosting regional high-quality development and promoting sustainable urban development patterns. Although studies have analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution and influencing factors of regional integration and UGDE, the impact of regional integration on UGDE remains untested. In this paper, we construct a conceptual framework to analyze how regional integration can influence UGDE through promoting the factors mobility and optimizing the industrial layout. In addition, we further choose the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River (UAMRYR), a rapidly growing urban agglomeration in central China, as a case to investigate the spatial spillover effect of regional integration on UGDE from 2003 to 2017. We quantify the UGDE with a random forest model, then estimate the underlying determinants of the UGDE with a spatial Durbin model. Results indicated that (1) the regional integration level and the UGDE index of the UAMRYR and its three sub-urban agglomerations show an increasing trend; (2) for every 1% increase in the level of regional integration, the level of UGDE will increase by 0.8307%; (3) the impact of regional integration on UGDE has obvious regional heterogeneity; while playing a promoting effect in the Wuhan urban agglomeration and the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan urban agglomeration, it shows an inhibitory effect in the Poyang Lake urban agglomeration. We conclude that regional integration in agglomeration areas can accelerate the factors flow and optimize the industrial layout for improving UGDE.

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“…Процесс урбанизации выступает основной детерминантой региональной интеграции территорий в городские агломерации, представляющий собой новую форму пространственной организации хозяйственной деятельности [Li et al, 2022]. Массовый приток сельского населения в крупные города ускорил распространение агломерационных процессов (см.…”

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Issues of Spatial Development Management of Agglomerations (As Exemplified by Krasnodar Krai)

Patrakeeva¹

2022

Reg. ekon. Yug Ross.

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The study of the phenomenon of agglomeration analyzes settlement system, agglomeration effects, industry location. Foreign experience of public policy shows the evolution of the urban structure towards growth of additional employment centers as an effective tool for population decentralization and improvement of living standards and environmental quality. In Russia, large cities have high population growth rates, and the standard of living of the suburbs is still lower than in the agglomeration “cores”. Social and economic situation of Krasnodar, Novorossiysk and Sochi agglomerations is characterized by the following indicators: population, average wage, investment, shipped production, area of dwelling unit per capita. Half of the population of the region lives within the agglomerations, which account for 60% of shipped production, 70% of own investments. Wages and housing provision in large cities are significantly higher than in average in the region. High dynamics of population growth is due to migration (intraregional and from other regions of Russia) to the central areas of the agglomeration, which have higher level of social and economic development and accessibility to infrastructure. At the same time, centripetal processes worsen problems of urban environment. Development of agglomeration planning connected with Development strategy of Krasnodar Krai and industrial programs taking into account the economic relationships between “core” and periphery will form the legal basis for the design and management of the agglomeration as a single territorial object.

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Integrated regional development: Comparison of urban agglomeration policies in China

Cited by 112 publications

References 102 publications

Exploring the Spatiotemporal Integration Evolution of the Urban Agglomeration through City Networks

Exploring the Spatiotemporal Integration Evolution of the Urban Agglomeration through City Networks

How Regional Integration Affects Urban Green Development Efficiency: Evidence from Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

Issues of Spatial Development Management of Agglomerations (As Exemplified by Krasnodar Krai)

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