An opinion regarding the grid layout as a goal and parameter

IF 6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Land Use Policy Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107481

Lawrence W.C. Lai , Stephen N.G. Davies , Hon Chim Chiu , Ken S.T. Ching

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This opinion paper has the goal of offering two opinions as a guide for further and better research on the grid layout motivated by its coming back to planning research and practice. By analytical reasoning referencing relevant researches and real world examples, it gives from a town planner’s perspective an account for both the popularity and resilience of the grid layout. The first opinion is that the grid layout (gridiron (orthogonal/rectangular)) is a default planning option in relation to the town and country layout or pattern of land apportionment. The second and more important, based on two case studies (one from colonial Hong Kong and another from the southern bank of the River Clyde, in Glasgow, Scotland), is that the conversion of an informal and customary layout into a formal grid land pattern and its subsequent modification is, in the word of Libecap et al. (2011), a major “institutional change” that involves high transaction costs measured in terms of time. Seven research issues are discussed.

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将网格布局作为目标和参数的意见

本文的目的是在网格布局回归到规划研究和实践的过程中，为进一步更好地开展网格布局研究提供两点意见。通过分析推理，参考相关研究和现实世界的例子，从城市规划师的角度来解释网格布局的普及和弹性。第一种观点是，网格布局（格（正交/矩形））是一种默认的规划选择，与城镇和乡村布局或土地分配模式有关。第二个也是更重要的是，基于两个案例研究（一个来自殖民时期的香港，另一个来自苏格兰格拉斯哥的克莱德河南岸），用Libecap等人（2011）的话来说，将非正式和习惯的布局转变为正式的网格土地格局及其随后的修改是一种重大的“制度变革”，涉及以时间衡量的高交易成本。讨论了七个研究问题。

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Land Use Policy ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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13.70

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8.50%

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553

期刊介绍： Land Use Policy is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use. Land Use Policy examines issues in geography, agriculture, forestry, irrigation, environmental conservation, housing, urban development and transport in both developed and developing countries through major refereed articles and shorter viewpoint pieces.