Development priority zoning in China and its impact on urban growth management strategy

TY - JOUR

T1 - Development priority zoning in China and its impact on urban growth management strategy

AU - Wang, Wei

AU - Zhang, Xiaoling

AU - Wu, Yuzhe

AU - Zhou, Ling

AU - Skitmore, Martin

N1 - Funding Information: The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71373231 & 71303203), the Early Career Scheme of Hong Kong Research grant council (Project No: 9048039), the General Research Funding of Hong Kong Research grant council (Project No: 9042363), the Environment and Conservation Fund (Project No: 92110732) funded by HKSAR Depts., the Research Writing Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong (Project No: 9618005). The work described in this paper was also substantially supported by the Matching fund for NSFC (Project No: 9680114 and 7004309); and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Foundation project, (USA & China) (project no: R-IND6604). Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/2/1

Y1 - 2017/2/1

N2 - Urban growth management is a popular topic for study area all over the world. Despite the increasingly rich literature, however, little has been considered of the complex relationship between the various urban development factors and their feedback structure. This paper contributes in understanding the mechanism of, and establishing a link between, urban growth management oriented by zoning in China (namely development priority zoning or DPZ). A system dynamics urban growth model is presented that is integrated with China's socio-economic development situation. With Yiwu city and Qingtian County as case studies, the model is applied in simulating urban growth under different driving modes. The results indicate that the DPZ in these two areas has an influence on urban growth management strategy, with the driving mode of urban growth affecting economic development levels, migration and types of land conversion. It is concluded that different driving modes are needed for different types of regions according to the functional positioning of their DPZ and that the model contributes to their identification.

AB - Urban growth management is a popular topic for study area all over the world. Despite the increasingly rich literature, however, little has been considered of the complex relationship between the various urban development factors and their feedback structure. This paper contributes in understanding the mechanism of, and establishing a link between, urban growth management oriented by zoning in China (namely development priority zoning or DPZ). A system dynamics urban growth model is presented that is integrated with China's socio-economic development situation. With Yiwu city and Qingtian County as case studies, the model is applied in simulating urban growth under different driving modes. The results indicate that the DPZ in these two areas has an influence on urban growth management strategy, with the driving mode of urban growth affecting economic development levels, migration and types of land conversion. It is concluded that different driving modes are needed for different types of regions according to the functional positioning of their DPZ and that the model contributes to their identification.

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U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2016.11.009

DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2016.11.009

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85000714932

SN - 0264-2751

VL - 62

SP - 1

EP - 9

JO - Cities

JF - Cities

ER -