New Urban Districts(NUDs)are the important spatial carriers to promote urban expansion or transformation.Since the 1990 s,they have been playing a more and more crucial role in China’s urbanization.For NUDs in the st...New Urban Districts(NUDs)are the important spatial carriers to promote urban expansion or transformation.Since the 1990 s,they have been playing a more and more crucial role in China’s urbanization.For NUDs in the strict sense we found that:96%to the east of Hu Line;56%within the municipal districts;64%within 36 km from their every city center and below the area of 423 km^2.The regional distribution follows significant spatial difference as"Eastern Region(50%)–Central Region(42%)–Western Region(8%)",and the provinces with the largest number of NUDs are Guangdong,Henan,Zhejiang,Liaoning,and Jiangsu.Furthermore,their interesting constructed process highlights the typical characteristics of spatial production and spatial dialectic.This paper uses the theory of the production of space,and discovers that the growth of NUDs is a rapid ternary dialectical process of spatial production:"representations of space"is guided by the top-down governmental power;"spatial practice"is reflected in the hierarchical and regional difference of spatial elements,such as the type,pattern,distance and area of NUD;"spaces of representation"embodies the tension between governmental power and urban development rights,as well as the countermeasure mechanism.The extensibility of spatiotemporal sequences ensures the unity and continuity of spatial(re)production of NUDs.However,this is also facing a series of challenges like the management coordination of administrative division and the increasing unbalanced or inadequate development.Thus,critically rethinking the evolution of NUD is the key basis for achieving sustainable urban renewal and regional orderly development in the new era.展开更多
Based on the significant difference of China’s cities at different(administrative)hierarchical levels in population growth over the past three decades,this study explains the influence of urban development policies(i...Based on the significant difference of China’s cities at different(administrative)hierarchical levels in population growth over the past three decades,this study explains the influence of urban development policies(industrial policies and land policies)on the gap in urban population growth from the perspective of government favoritism.Taking 423 cities during 1990-2015 as samples,this paper selects two indicators,setting up national development zones and turning counties into districts,to represent government favoritism and applies the PSM-DID method.The empirical result shows government favoritism in setting up national development zones and turning counties into districts is conducive to urban population growth and helps generate synergy effects of industrial and land policies.Market potential of cities is an important condition for the effect of government favoritism.The result fi nds that government favors higher-level cities and coastal ones,but overlooks inland medium-and low-level cities,resulting in the shallow U-shaped characteristics of“higher on both ends and lower in the middle”in population growth of cities at different levels.In order to prevent inland medium-and low-level cities from“collapsing”relatively,the government should break its favoritism for high-level cities,transform industrial and land policies from“preference system”to“generalized system of preference”,and put greater favor of inland medium-and low-level cities with certain market potential.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41571138,No.41771171,No.41871143,No.41961029
文摘New Urban Districts(NUDs)are the important spatial carriers to promote urban expansion or transformation.Since the 1990 s,they have been playing a more and more crucial role in China’s urbanization.For NUDs in the strict sense we found that:96%to the east of Hu Line;56%within the municipal districts;64%within 36 km from their every city center and below the area of 423 km^2.The regional distribution follows significant spatial difference as"Eastern Region(50%)–Central Region(42%)–Western Region(8%)",and the provinces with the largest number of NUDs are Guangdong,Henan,Zhejiang,Liaoning,and Jiangsu.Furthermore,their interesting constructed process highlights the typical characteristics of spatial production and spatial dialectic.This paper uses the theory of the production of space,and discovers that the growth of NUDs is a rapid ternary dialectical process of spatial production:"representations of space"is guided by the top-down governmental power;"spatial practice"is reflected in the hierarchical and regional difference of spatial elements,such as the type,pattern,distance and area of NUD;"spaces of representation"embodies the tension between governmental power and urban development rights,as well as the countermeasure mechanism.The extensibility of spatiotemporal sequences ensures the unity and continuity of spatial(re)production of NUDs.However,this is also facing a series of challenges like the management coordination of administrative division and the increasing unbalanced or inadequate development.Thus,critically rethinking the evolution of NUD is the key basis for achieving sustainable urban renewal and regional orderly development in the new era.
基金the General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China“Research on the Coordinated Development of Chinese Urban System:Measurement,Causes and Performance Evaluation”(71873062)Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China“Research on the Mechanism Design and Path Selection for Replacing Old Growth Drivers with New Ones”(18ZDA077).
文摘Based on the significant difference of China’s cities at different(administrative)hierarchical levels in population growth over the past three decades,this study explains the influence of urban development policies(industrial policies and land policies)on the gap in urban population growth from the perspective of government favoritism.Taking 423 cities during 1990-2015 as samples,this paper selects two indicators,setting up national development zones and turning counties into districts,to represent government favoritism and applies the PSM-DID method.The empirical result shows government favoritism in setting up national development zones and turning counties into districts is conducive to urban population growth and helps generate synergy effects of industrial and land policies.Market potential of cities is an important condition for the effect of government favoritism.The result fi nds that government favors higher-level cities and coastal ones,but overlooks inland medium-and low-level cities,resulting in the shallow U-shaped characteristics of“higher on both ends and lower in the middle”in population growth of cities at different levels.In order to prevent inland medium-and low-level cities from“collapsing”relatively,the government should break its favoritism for high-level cities,transform industrial and land policies from“preference system”to“generalized system of preference”,and put greater favor of inland medium-and low-level cities with certain market potential.
