{"title":"The evolution of the planning system in the process of large-scale and rapid urbanization in China","authors":"Yulong Shi, Xin Lian","doi":"10.1177/27541223231191386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231191386","url":null,"abstract":"Urban planning is a fundamental policy tool for countries to manage their land use and spatial development. As a nation’s economic, social and technological development undergoes changes, so does its planning system evolve dynamically to address the challenges of each era. In China, with the average annual urban population increasing 17.25 million since 1978, the spatial distribution of population and economic resources has undergone unprecedented great changes. The transformation of China’s planning system during the rapid and large-scale urbanization process could be divided into four stages: restoration of urban plan and establishment of the planning system (1978–1990); growth and development of the planning system under the market-oriented economic system (1990–2000); integration of urban and rural planning (2000–2010); exploring and forming a unified spatial planning system under the guidance of ecological civilization construction (2010–). This paper analyzes the characteristics of urbanization in China since the reform and opening up, the related era-specific issues and the policy responses, then elaborates the new landmark planning types that emerged in each stage, as well as summarizing the evolution process. There is no “standard, universal paradigm” in the process of building a country’s planning system, and no unchanging template or unified approach to achieving it.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Central Cities: Unravelling A Chinese urban policy puzzle","authors":"Chris Hamnett, Yuan Yao, Jing Yang","doi":"10.1177/27541223231187598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231187598","url":null,"abstract":"This paper critically examines a recent innovation in Chinese urban policy: the designation of a new category of ‘National Central Cities’ (NCCs). These cities, of which there are currently nine, are meant to play a key role in economic modernisation and national economic development. But, despite their undoubted importance, their precise role, definition and function and their basis of designation is unclear. The paper argues first that the underlying, but implicit, theoretical rationale is growth pole theory and that the cities are meant to play a major role in the diffusion and ‘radiation’ of economic growth and other forms of development in their regional hinterlands. The paper also examines the geographical distribution of NCCs in China and looks at their ranking compared to other cities in terms of a number of different indicators such as GDP and population and asks why some cities have been chosen and not others. What is the basis of NCC designation? Finally, it speculates on the future number and distribution of NCCs, the competition for new designation and the possible benefits designation may confer.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135144120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-scaled city networks based on automotive industry value chain: a case study from Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River","authors":"Zhifei Xiong, Wensheng Zheng, Xiaofang Wang","doi":"10.1177/27541223231189815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231189815","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers are increasingly focusing on city networks, but there has been little in-depth research on the spatial heterogeneity of city networks at different scales, which makes it easy to overlook the functional differences of various actors in the network at different scales. To fill this gap, this research employs a case study of the Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to supplement multi-scaled data on the subject. This study reveals the emergence of three models of city networks in central China as a result of the automotive industry value chain, which spans from spare parts to automakers and sale/service. The first model is strongly connected city networks centered on the ‘Wuhan–Xiangyang–Shiyan’ economic belt and embeds itself in Hubei province. The second model is city networks centered on the ‘Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan’ Urban Agglomeration and embeds itself in Hunan province. The third model is flattened city networks that expand on their own in Jiangxi Province. The demand for vehicles fueled the growth of these city networks through spatial division of labor. However, there are still boundaries and distance that hinder expansion, and the fact that some automotive companies are state-owned has made them an essential instrument for the Chinese government to control regional city networks.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135143340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward multidimensional activity space-based segregation research","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/27541223231164781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231164781","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring and explaining sociospatial segregation is essential in urban and social geography. Recent advances in activity space-based segregation provide new opportunities to study sociospatial segregation. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the emerging activity space-based segregation research in terms of measurements, dimensions, and influential factors. We highlight the trend toward integrating spatial, temporal, and social dimensions in activity space-based segregation measurement. Then, a multidimensional framework is constructed to cover the spatial form, opportunity exposure, spatiotemporal interaction, and social relationship of activity space-based segregation research. This paper ends with challenges and future directions for activity space-based segregation research, highlighting the importance of the temporal dimension, social interaction, influential mechanisms, and social effects.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124597279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gang Hu, Jianzhong Huang, Jianing Shi, Siling Chen
{"title":"The formation of the Chinese territorial spatial planning system and international comparison","authors":"Gang Hu, Jianzhong Huang, Jianing Shi, Siling Chen","doi":"10.1177/27541223231153420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231153420","url":null,"abstract":"China is currently carrying out the reform of territorial spatial planning. With the method of literature review, this paper gives a brief introduction to the development course of spatial planning in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Japan. After that, the four stages of China’s spatial planning development and the main contents of the current territorial spatial planning are introduced in detail. Then this paper explores the important factors affecting the development of spatial planning and the coping strategies of various countries through international comparison and discusses the enlightenments of the coping strategies of other countries to China. The study indicates that Chinese spatial planning has gone through the multi-planning stage, which comprises major functional zone planning, regional planning, territorial planning, urban and rural planning, and eco-environmental protection planning. Additionally, under the influence of multiple factors such as spatial resources, social factors, international events, environmental crises, and urban problems, China has formed the territorial spatial planning system with ecological civilization as its core concept and high-level governance, high-quality development, and high-quality life as its main planning objectives.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123893920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arguing with megaregions: Learning from China’s chéngshì qún","authors":"J. Harrison, Hao Gu","doi":"10.1177/27541223231157239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231157239","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of megaregions is championed by those arguing that the 21st century will be dominated by vast expanses of transmetropolitan urban landscapes. Many argue that we are living in a ‘world’ and an ‘age’ of megaregions, where megaregions are both competitive territories par excellence and an important scale for urban planning. Nowhere does the spotlight shine more brightly than on China’s megaregions (chéngshì qún). In this paper we examine the new planning vision for megaregions in China’s 14th Five Year Plan (2021–25). We trace continuities and discontinuities from the 11th, 12th and 13th FYPs to emphasise the importance of adopting a strong spatial and temporal approach to researching megaregions. This analysis is then used to outline an agenda for researching urban China and megaregionalism through the lens of chéngshì qún. This research agenda takes the form of eight statements which are presented as modern theses for megaregionalism. These are then countered by eight antitheses, alternative views which provide an agenda for future research into chéngshì qún, the changing dynamics of urban China and megaregionalism more generally. Tying everything together is a claim for more synthesis.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128968900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planning centrality, state-oriented growth, and the spatial evolution of development zones in urban China: The case of Wuhan’s Optics Valley","authors":"Yunming Geng, Wenwen Jiang, Zheng Wang","doi":"10.1177/27541223221151155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221151155","url":null,"abstract":"As an important component of China’s efforts at reform and its opening-up policy, China’s development zones have been experiencing rapid development for nearly 40 years and have played a huge role in promoting the country’s economic growth, industrial development, technological innovation and urban construction. This article focuses on the changing priorities and objectives of high-tech development zones and how they have shaped the spatiality of development zones. We also analyse the role of urban planning in delivering these spatial changes thereby expanding on the concept of planning centrality which was introduced by Wu in his 2018 article ‘Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism’. By drawing on the case of the Optics Valley of China (also known as Wuhan East Lake High-Tech Development Zone), we illustrate how development zones have evolved spatially over 30 years due to the changing needs of the national government as well as the Wuhan municipality. We categorise these changes to the project’s spatial form into three stages: from block to park, from park to urban area, and finally, from urban area to new city. These three stages signify the different priorities of the Chinese state starting from industrial development, to land-based accumulation and now focusing on delivering an ecological civilisation and attracting and retaining a highly skilled workforce. For each corresponding stage, urban planning has played a crucial role whereby the change from a block to park was driven by regulatory and strategic planning whilst for instance the change from an urban area to a new city required planning to focus more on the delivery of high-quality public spaces and amenities through detailed urban design guidance and schemes.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121232779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"City-regional governance under state entrepreneurialism in China","authors":"Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu, Weikai Wang","doi":"10.1177/27541223231164786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231164786","url":null,"abstract":"Facing de-globalisation, changing international politics, climate changes and new smart technologies in the post-pandemic era, city-regions become important spaces for economic, social and environmental governance. In China, this new city-regional form of governance is created under state entrepreneurialism, which means the state uses entrepreneurial endeavours to achieve its strategic vision and intention. The processes of city-region building include centralising the spatial planning system, inventing new spatial discourses, representing regional imaginaries and restructuring the state towards ecological goals. Instead of market-driven regional dynamics or redistributive politics, China’s city-regional governance demonstrates the role of the multi-scalar state in constructing and implementing economic, social and environmental policies at a regional scale.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127592117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small cities and towns in global city-centred regionalism: Observations from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China","authors":"Yi Li, Andrew E. G. Jonas","doi":"10.1177/27541223231157225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231157225","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the historical and recent efforts towards constructing an integrated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei global city-region, arguably the most politically privileged urban agglomeration in China. It considers how a progressive national policy discourse concerning city-regional integrated development is substantially focused on the central city (Beijing), thereby privileging the competitiveness and interests of the larger global city at the expense of those of the surrounding smaller cities and towns. The study argues that future research and policy informing city-regionalism should pay closer attention to the uneven power dynamics and distributional politics operating within, and often in tension with, the geopolitical orchestration of global city-regions by nation states.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126868093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross-border ageing in China’s Greater Bay Area in the digital age: A comparative study of mobile application adoption by Hong Kong older migrants and local older adults in Shenzhen","authors":"Chun Yang, Chun-Yin Ma, J. Wang, Yuqiong Zhou","doi":"10.1177/27541223221150653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221150653","url":null,"abstract":"This study lies in the burgeoning literature on the contextual effects of the adoption of mobile applications (apps) on the everyday lives and integration of older migrants into a host society, taking the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in South China as a case. Despite recent advocacy of healthy ageing and regional integration, most GBA studies related to cross-border ageing have focused on welfare portability instead of the everyday life adaptation of older migrants through use of digital technologies. This article investigates and compares how mobile apps have facilitated/hindered the integration of Hong Kong older migrants in Shenzhen, through a comparative investigation of mobile app adoption between Hong Kong older migrants and local Shenzhen older adults. A mixed-method approach is adopted including focus group meetings with Hong Kong older migrants living in Shenzhen, and questionnaire surveys with Shenzhen local older adults between September 2021 and March 2022. The study sheds light on two major findings. First, facing the highly digitalized Shenzhen, Hong Kong older migrants have caught up more with using instrumental apps (e.g. mobile payment), as compared with recreational, informational, and open (one-to-many) communication apps. Second, Hong Kong older migrants have emphasized the use of apps for cross-border interactions. The digital gaps in terms of different using patterns of mobile apps highlight Hong Kong older migrants’ lack of socio-cultural integration and feeling of separation from the host society. This study advocates for more active involvement of older migrants’ specific needs in designing mobile apps. Multi-scalar cooperation among various localities in the GBA region is deemed important for older migrants to further integrate into the host society with the widespread use of digital technologies in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126846471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}