Processes of Mega-Urban Development in China: The Lower Yangzi Delta and Kunshan

Marton, Andrew; McGee, T. G.

doi:10.1080/10225706.1996.9684012

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“…The desakota model captures the sociodemographic dimensions of rapid urbanization processes and characterizes the periurban fringes of city cores with more intense interaction between urban and rural processes (McGee, 2008; Sui and Zeng, 2001). It also highlights how local factors such as economic development, government policies, and institutional systems stimulate the emergence of urbanizing rural regions (Lin, 2001; Lo and Marcotullio, 2000; Marton and McGee, 1996; Tang and Chung, 2002). However, this model emphasizes the bottom-up process that influences the transformation of Asian settlement patterns but does not explain the drivers that expedite the fast growth of SMEs since the late 1950s.…”

Section: The Desakota Model: An Overviewmentioning

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Modeling impacts of globalization on desakota regions: a case study of Taipei Metropolitan Area

Sui

2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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Rapid urbanization in Asia challenges conventional urban models developed in the West in terms of economic globalization and local development. The new desakota model proposed by McGee and Ginsburg describes unique spatial structure in Asian urbanization. Although urban morphology is highlighted, urbanization processes driven by globalization and local economies are not emphasized in this descriptive model. To elaborate on how economic globalization influences urbanization processes and shapes unique spatial features in Asia, this study adopts cellular automata to develop a GIS-based urban model and simulate how foreign direct investments (FDIs), an important indicator of economic globalization, influence the local economy and the evolution of spatial structures with various levels of foreign flux. The Taipei case study confirms that growing FDIs and service activities are key factors stimulating the growth of desakota regions and the formation of a mega-urban region during the urbanization process.

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Section: The Desakota Model: An Overviewmentioning

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Modeling impacts of globalization on desakota regions: a case study of Taipei Metropolitan Area

Sui

2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…These conditions are fundamental to understanding the spatial regularity of the road network. Historically, the evolution of a road network and the spatial pattern of accessibility are driven, not only by the requirements of commercial and economic activities, but also by the desire to centralize the transport system around the capital city (Marton and McGee, 1996). Beyond the direct impacts of accessibility and connectivity, the road network inevitably has longer term indirect impacts on the geography of the land territory, economic activity, and even national governance.…”

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Evolution, accessibility and dynamics of road networks in China from 1600 BC to 1900 AD

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Before the emergence of modern modes of transport, the traditional road infrastructure was the major historical means of carrying out nationwide socio-economic exchange. However, the history of transport infrastructure has received little attention from researchers. Given this background, the work reported here examined the long-term development of transport networks in China. The national road network was selected for study and the 3500 years from 1600 BC to 1900 AD was chosen as the study period. Indicators were designed for the maturity level of road networks and an accessibility model was developed for the paths of the shortest distance. The evolution of the road network in China since the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC) was described and its major features were summarized to reveal long-term regularities. The maturity level of the road network and its accessibility was assessed and regions with good and poor networks were identified. The relationship between China's natural, social, and economic systems and the road network were discussed. Our analysis shows that the road network in China has a number of long-term regularities. The continuously expanding road network follows a path of inland expansion especially towards the border areas. However, its coverage and accessibility are characterized by a core-peripheral configuration, which has close relationships with, not only the natural conditions, but also national defense and warfare. The centralization of national power, national land governance, postal transport, the transport of specialized cargos, and international trade are also related to the development of the road network. This research draws attention to the evolving regularities of transport networks.

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Contesting Urban and Rural Space in Desakota Regions of Taiwan—A Case Study of I-Lan County

Shih

Chi

2012

Environment and Urbanization ASIA

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The article focuses on the analysis of the desakotasi (village-city process) in Taiwan's local context of I-Lan County. Particular attention is paid to the manner in which political conflicts have shaped the urbanization process in I-Lan County over the last 20 years. Those conflict points include primarily the construction of Industrial Zones (IZs) and Taipei-I-Lan super highway promoted by the ruling Kuomintang Party (KMT), which were designed to increase Taiwan's international competitiveness. But such measures were opposed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) with an ideology of local first. Local magistrates issued a series of environmental protection policies against the developmental strategies of the central state, the ruling Kuomintang. In the following years, the continuing rotation of political parties created conflict that brought demonstration at the local level. These developments were affected by international and national developments that led to a restructuring of economic space in Taiwan particularly processes of urban expansion that led to a steady decline of agriculture.The significant push-and-pull effect of contesting spaces in political conflicts between KMT-and DPP-controlled periods could be evidenced by: (1) the decline or prosperity of the Industrial Zones and Suao township; (2) the enlargement of urban cores like I-Lan City and Luodong Township; and (3) the formation of a mixed space of urban-rural corridor. I-Lan County, which so long remained in the shadow of the Taipei metropolis, is now increasingly integrated into the Taipei metropolitan region. And its future relies upon the resolution of the political conflicts surrounding environmental protection and the spatial reconstruction of the region so that its desakota heritage may be preserved.

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Processes of Mega-Urban Development in China: The Lower Yangzi Delta and Kunshan

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References 5 publications

Modeling impacts of globalization on desakota regions: a case study of Taipei Metropolitan Area

Modeling impacts of globalization on desakota regions: a case study of Taipei Metropolitan Area

Evolution, accessibility and dynamics of road networks in China from 1600 BC to 1900 AD

Contesting Urban and Rural Space in Desakota Regions of Taiwan—A Case Study of I-Lan County

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