Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods

Impact of anthropogenic activities on urban stream water quality: a case study in Guangzhou, China

“…As such, domestic sewage is mostly discharged directly to nearby streams because of poorly constructed and insufficient drainage systems and municipal pipe networks (Liu et al 2010). All these well explain why sites R1-R6, which are located around some urban villages, i.e., Xinshi, Shijing, Tangxia, Chebei, Qianjin, and Ruibao, respectively, had worse water quality than other sites (R7 to R17; Fig.…”

“…Population density is usually much higher in urban villages than in any other residential areas of the city (Liu et al 2010). For example, approximately 70 % of the migrants live in the 138 urban villages of Guangzhou, comprising about 40 % the total urban population, although the urban villages occupy only 20 % of the total urban area (Lin and De Meulder 2012).…”

“…Local governments and experts have been striving to take steps toward better water pollution control and environmental management. During the longlasting process of economic development and urbanization in Guangzhou, a new type of urban neighborhood, called urban village (detailed in the Supplementary material), has emerged; a total of 138 urban villages have gradually formed within the city territory (Liu et al 2010;Lin and De Meulder 2012). In addition, the 16th Asian Games (http://en.olympic.…”

Multi-scale analysis of rural housing land transition under China's rapid urbanization: The case of Bohai Rim

“…With the introduction of land use transitions to the academic circle of China (Long, 2003;Long & Li, 2002), related researches combining with the characteristics of China's socio-economic development have been carried out extensively (Gong, Chen, Liu, & Wang, 2014;Long et al, 2007Su, Wang, Luo, Mai, & Pu, 2014, Su, Yang, Hu, Luo, & Wang, 2014. Recently, issues related to rural housing land transition in China have attracted interest among a wide variety of researchers, ranging from those who favor theoretical hypothesis and verification (Long et al, 2007), morphology evolution of rural settlements , hollowed villages (Chen, Sun, & Liu, 2010;Liu, Liu, Chen, & Long, 2010;, rural housing land consolidation Long, 2014b), functional transition of the rural settlements (Zhu, Zhang, Li, & Zhu, 2014), urban village (Liu, He, Wu, & Webster, 2010;Liu, van Oort, Geertman, & Lin, 2014;Lin & De Meulder, 2012;Song, Zenou, & Ding, 2008), to those who try to understand the spatio-temporal patterns, driving forces and coupling mechanism of rural housing land transition (Chen, Ye, Cai, Xing, & Chen, 2014;Liu, Liu, Kong, Li, & Tan, 2015;Song & Liu, 2014;Tan & Li, 2013).…”

Industrial land development in urban villages in China: A property rights perspective

“…Previous studies emphasized the informal development of urban villages because of lack of state regulations (Liu, He, Wu, & Webster, 2010;Wang, Wang, & Wu, 2009;Wu et al, 2012;Zhu & Hu, 2009). Some studies argued that the absence of land use planning on collective land is the key determinant of sub-optimal development of urban villages (Liu et al, 2010;Tian, 2008;Zhu & Hu, 2009). This perspective provides useful insights to the understanding of the development of urban villages, but it failed to identify other important institutional constraints to urban villages imposed by the current dual land ownership system.…”