Expansion and growth in Chinese cities, 1978–2010
By Annemarie Schneider, C. Mertes. 2014
224 citations recorded by the source corpus.
It has long been recognized that compact versus more sprawling urban forms can have very different environmental impacts. As the Chinese population continues to rapidly urbanize, the size, shape, and configuration of cities in China will undoubtedly change to accommodate expansion of housing, industry, and commerce, causing direct and indirect environmental impacts at multiple scales. It is therefore imperative to understand how urban areas are evolving as socio-economic reforms in China are implemented across different regions. This paper compares trends in 142 Chinese cities (including 17 agglomerations) to understand urban expansion and population growth following reforms, 1978–2010. The results show that cities tripled in size, while doubling in population over the same period. In coastal areas targeted by early policies, urban land increased 4–5 times since 1978, for all city sizes. Large agglomerations are the primary consumers of land in coastal and western regions, each adding an average of 450 km2 during the study period, while small-medium cities consumed an average 20 km2. Although populations in these agglomerations increased an average 1.3 million, 2000–2010, cities within 100 km of each agglomeration grew >1.8 million collectively. Proximity to large agglomerations contributed to the growth of small-medium cities, especially in western regions.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Transportation
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6ef0b50d8ab76524d9b82fc9782ad1e239b0b462
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Global and Planetary Change
In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
In Transportation
Citations in the corpus
- Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+ (2019, background): “…urban growth inChinese cities are attributed to drivers such as rural to urban migration and foreign direct investment in the real estate sector, especially in cities providing incentives through special economic zones and in the more developed coastal cities (Ma 2004, Schneider and Mertes 2014).”
- A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010 (2015, unknown): “Recent comparative work on urbanization has found a middle ground by focusing on local maps (typically 30 m resolution) for a sample of cities (Seto et al 2011, Angel et al 2012, Taubenbock et al 2012, Schneider and Mertes 2014).”