Sui Liu , Zhaomin Tong , Yaolin Liu , Huiting Chen , Yanfang Liu
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Abstract
The promotion of sustainable development widely acknowledges the importance of achieving reasonable and healthy urban expansion. This study proposes a people-land-industry-environment (PLIE) framework to evaluate the quality of urban expansion (QoUE) in Chinese cities during 2010–2015 and 2015–2020. The results reveal that: 1) The dominant urban expansion patterns in Chinese cities are shifting, leading to a more compact urban form. 2) During the study periods, QoUE values ranged from (0, 59.00] and (0, 61.18], respectively. The high-high clusters of QoUE are mainly in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration and Upper Yangtze River region. The low-low units are in Shandong and Xinjiang, respectively. The spatial clustering of infilling and edge-expansion quality enhances. And the values of the indicators on infilling and edge expansion patches are higher. 3) The tertiary industry as percentage to GDP (TIP) positively affects QoUE at a global scale, and the other factors affect QoUE at varying scales and directions. The results offer policy implications for sustainable land use and high-quality urban development. Moreover, the concept of urban expansion evaluation can be adapted and extended for broader applications.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.