Toward the sustainable development of urban areas: An overview of global trends in trials and policies

Hassan, Abbas M.; Lee, Hyowon

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.04.029

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“…Meanwhile, the evolution of land use structure is strongly linked to urban socio-economic development and ecological environment protection [3,4]. Therefore, creating a suitable internal structure of UCLE is beneficial to effective allocation of urban land resources, as well as social and economic sustainable development [4,5].…”

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Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

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Abstract:The internal structure of urban construction land expansion (UCLE) is closely related to urban sustainability, and the UCLE in China's port city has a unique pattern. This study attempted to monitor the internal structure evolution of UCLE based on construction land transfer data in Ningbo's central city from 2002 to 2015. Equality fan analysis and kernel density analysis were applied to characterize the spatial-temporal dynamics of different types of UCLE and to summarize their evolution patterns. The results revealed that in the whole study area, the rank of the expansion size and intensity of construction land was: industrial land > traffic land > residential land > public land > commercial land. The dominant directions of all types of UCLE were the directions of the port zones. In the port zones, there were more apparent expansion trends and higher expansion intensities of industrial, traffic and public lands, which meant that the port had significant impact on UCLE, especially in terms of industrial land. Additionally, commercial and residential land expansions showed a circle-shaped gradient pattern; industrial land sprawl was in a leapfrog pattern; public and traffic land sprawl was illustrated in a bi-centric pattern. In the future, local government should encourage the development of residential and public land rather than industrial land, and shift the present industry structure which dominated by industry to a more balanced structure, in order to achieve sustainable development.

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Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

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“…Since the establishment of the special economic zone, Shenzhen City has experienced rapid urbanization, with an increase of urban construction land from 3 km 2 in 1980 to 976 km 2 in 2015, nearly 50% of the city's total area. The rapid expansion of urban construction has exerted great pressure on the ecological environment [57]. Due to the shortage of land, Shenzhen City faces severe challenges to its sustainability [58].…”

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Sustainability of Land Use Promoted by Construction-to-Ecological Land Conversion: A Case Study of Shenzhen City, China

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Rapid urbanization and rapid urban growth present great challenges to the sustainable utilization of land resources. This paper discusses the on-going process of construction-to-ecological land conversion (CELC) in terms of three aspects: land use, environmental effects, and system responses. CELC is compared to other current land conversion strategies in China. Taking Shenzhen City as an example, this paper introduces five areas in which CELC has been implemented since 2009, including basic farmland protection zones, mining areas, ecological corridors, inefficient industrial zones, and urban villages. This paper argues that Shenzhen's CELC model can improve the ecological environment, control urban sprawl, and promote sustainable land use and, thus, serve as an example for other cities in China.

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“…Social network analysis treats social relations and social structure as a network with two fundamentals [20]: (1) nodes that are in reality supposed to be individuals, companies, counties, cities or countries; and (2) links describing relationships or flows between nodes. Initially, however, the SNA approach was developed to detect individuals' relationships in light of the graph theory and mathematical methods [52,53].…”

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“…However, recent years have witnessed a larger magnitude of cities that are faced with a crossroad in the way towards social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Problems including poverty, unbalanced urban configuration, and greenhouse gas continue arising and they have aggregated the difficulty in actualizing the target of sustainability as a consequence [1]. In developing countries, urban sustainability is still heavily reliant on the growth of economy.…”

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Networked or Un-Networked? A Preliminary Study on KIBS-Based Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of China

Guo

Shan

2016

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Increasingly pertinent linkages of cities via knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in the 21st century have opened a new window for academia to reconsider the approach to achieving urban sustainability. In this study, city network was investigated with an aim of identifying its attributes in the framework of sustainable urban development. Data about China's KIBS, which are compiled in an inter-regional input-output table, were calculated following the procedure of social network analysis. It was found that: (1) the degree of nodes (i.e., out-degree, in-degree and betweenness) in China varies distinctively from city to city; (2) the hierarchy of the city network is very tiny; and (3) that the network structure is subject to both "a small world" and core-periphery effects. Furthermore, city nodes in China fall into four categories, namely high centrality and power, high centrality and low power, low centrality and high power, and low centrality and power. The implication is that governmental efforts should be made to secure a reasonable decentralization of key city nodes to ensure that urban sustainability is built on a city-to-city basis.

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Toward the sustainable development of urban areas: An overview of global trends in trials and policies

Cited by 120 publications

References 103 publications

Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

Sustainability of Land Use Promoted by Construction-to-Ecological Land Conversion: A Case Study of Shenzhen City, China

Networked or Un-Networked? A Preliminary Study on KIBS-Based Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of China

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