TY - JOUR
T1 - Differentiation and progress of urban regionalization in China
T2 - Perspectives of land use and geography
AU - Xu, Feng
AU - Wang, Zhanqi
AU - Chi, Guangqing
AU - Wang, Donghui
AU - Zhang, Zhexi
AU - Zuo, Danyu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71673258 , 42001206 ), Key Laboratory of Law and Government, Ministry of Natural Resources of China (Grant No. CUGFP–1904 ), the Youth Funds of School of Public Administration , China University of Geosciences (Grant No. CUGGG–2002 ), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities , China University of Geosciences .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - The explosive population growth and economic development in cities have led to continuous but diverse urban regionalization. The resulting urban agglomerations (UAs) exhibit differentiation at both regional and local scales. Few studies have documented the disparities in UAs regarding land use and geography. In this study, we investigated the county-level land use features of 19 China's planned UAs by using a land use intensity (LUI) metric. We employed the spatial autocorrelation, inequality statistics, and imbalance estimation models to estimate the agglomeration, inequalities, and coordination of land use, and we combined those indicators to distinguish the development pattern of all UAs. Our findings revealed that spatial pattern of LUIs and their autocorrelations over time are closely associated with the evolution of urban regionalization. The widening gaps of land use exist more within the UAs than among them. Based on the LUI inequality and its relations to population and economy, UAs were classified into core-driven, differentiated, coordinated, and mismatched ones. Our conclusions highlighted that policy incentives for sustainable urbanization help decouple the synchronism of socioeconomic and LUI inequality.
AB - The explosive population growth and economic development in cities have led to continuous but diverse urban regionalization. The resulting urban agglomerations (UAs) exhibit differentiation at both regional and local scales. Few studies have documented the disparities in UAs regarding land use and geography. In this study, we investigated the county-level land use features of 19 China's planned UAs by using a land use intensity (LUI) metric. We employed the spatial autocorrelation, inequality statistics, and imbalance estimation models to estimate the agglomeration, inequalities, and coordination of land use, and we combined those indicators to distinguish the development pattern of all UAs. Our findings revealed that spatial pattern of LUIs and their autocorrelations over time are closely associated with the evolution of urban regionalization. The widening gaps of land use exist more within the UAs than among them. Based on the LUI inequality and its relations to population and economy, UAs were classified into core-driven, differentiated, coordinated, and mismatched ones. Our conclusions highlighted that policy incentives for sustainable urbanization help decouple the synchronism of socioeconomic and LUI inequality.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102600
DO - 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102600
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118580216
SN - 0143-6228
VL - 137
JO - Applied Geography
JF - Applied Geography
M1 - 102600
ER -
