Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective
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- Xingjian Liu, Ben Derudder (UGent) and Kang Wu
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- This paper measures polycentric development in 22 urban regions in China by analysing intercity transportation networks. A typology of Chinese urban regions is identified based on individual regions' functionally and morphologically polycentricity. Three major sets of processes underlying the typology are discerned: the (mis)match between (governmentally) designated and economically integrated urban regions; unequal interregional economic development; and the impact of city-regional plans and policies. Urban regions along the east coast reach high levels of morphological and functional polycentricity. Many planned urban regions are morphologically polycentric, lacking functional integration. Most urban regions in western China lack any form of polycentricity.
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- China, Polycentric urban region, Transportation flows, Urban form, Urban network, WORLD CITY NETWORK, FUNCTIONAL POLYCENTRICITY, SPATIAL STRUCTURE, RIVER DELTA, METROPOLITAN-AREAS, HONG-KONG, REGION, CITIES, CONNECTIVITY, EMERGENCE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-7047092
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- Liu, Xingjian, Ben Derudder, and Kang Wu. “Measuring Polycentric Urban Development in China: An Intercity Transportation Network Perspective.” REGIONAL STUDIES 50.8 (2016): 1302–1315. Print.
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- Liu, Xingjian, Derudder, B., & Wu, K. (2016). Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective. REGIONAL STUDIES, 50(8), 1302–1315.
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- Liu, Xingjian, Ben Derudder, and Kang Wu. 2016. “Measuring Polycentric Urban Development in China: An Intercity Transportation Network Perspective.” Regional Studies 50 (8): 1302–1315.
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- Liu, Xingjian, Ben Derudder, and Kang Wu. 2016. “Measuring Polycentric Urban Development in China: An Intercity Transportation Network Perspective.” Regional Studies 50 (8): 1302–1315.
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- 1.Liu X, Derudder B, Wu K. Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective. REGIONAL STUDIES. 2016;50(8):1302–15.
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- [1]X. Liu, B. Derudder, and K. Wu, “Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective,” REGIONAL STUDIES, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 1302–1315, 2016.
@article{7047092,
abstract = {This paper measures polycentric development in 22 urban regions in China by analysing intercity transportation networks. A typology of Chinese urban regions is identified based on individual regions' functionally and morphologically polycentricity. Three major sets of processes underlying the typology are discerned: the (mis)match between (governmentally) designated and economically integrated urban regions; unequal interregional economic development; and the impact of city-regional plans and policies. Urban regions along the east coast reach high levels of morphological and functional polycentricity. Many planned urban regions are morphologically polycentric, lacking functional integration. Most urban regions in western China lack any form of polycentricity.},
author = {Liu, Xingjian and Derudder, Ben and Wu, Kang},
issn = {0034-3404},
journal = {REGIONAL STUDIES},
keywords = {China,Polycentric urban region,Transportation flows,Urban form,Urban network,WORLD CITY NETWORK,FUNCTIONAL POLYCENTRICITY,SPATIAL STRUCTURE,RIVER DELTA,METROPOLITAN-AREAS,HONG-KONG,REGION,CITIES,CONNECTIVITY,EMERGENCE},
language = {eng},
number = {8},
pages = {1302--1315},
title = {Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2015.1004535},
volume = {50},
year = {2016},
}
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