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Meeting the Challenge of Future Urbanization
Current development dynamics in China are characterized by a steady population growth, an ongoing urbanization of the former agriculturally-based population, a dynamic economic growth and a rapid motorization. Despite these strong dynamics and the concomitant socio-economic changes, the current approaches to planning policies have remained in their essence those of a planned economy. Main objectives are keeping the rural population in the countryside and preventing urbanization, with special emphasis on limiting the growth of the large cities. However, although the reinforcement of the policies is strong, economic forces become increasingly decisive in the process of urbanization, giving impetus particularly to the growth of the large cities. Meanwhile, there is no regional, no comprehensive and no land development planning approach. The consequence threatens to be a scattered low-density urbanization of the countryside and a fast, uncontrolled and uncoordinated growth of the agglomerations of the large cities, compromising the efforts towards sustainable development. Conscious of this, the article suggests the adoption of planning policies designed to meet the inevitable challenge of future (large- scale) urbanization and the implementation of planning procedures and approaches adapted to the suggested policies, while assessing potential impacts.
Meeting the Challenge of Future Urbanization
Current development dynamics in China are characterized by a steady population growth, an ongoing urbanization of the former agriculturally-based population, a dynamic economic growth and a rapid motorization. Despite these strong dynamics and the concomitant socio-economic changes, the current approaches to planning policies have remained in their essence those of a planned economy. Main objectives are keeping the rural population in the countryside and preventing urbanization, with special emphasis on limiting the growth of the large cities. However, although the reinforcement of the policies is strong, economic forces become increasingly decisive in the process of urbanization, giving impetus particularly to the growth of the large cities. Meanwhile, there is no regional, no comprehensive and no land development planning approach. The consequence threatens to be a scattered low-density urbanization of the countryside and a fast, uncontrolled and uncoordinated growth of the agglomerations of the large cities, compromising the efforts towards sustainable development. Conscious of this, the article suggests the adoption of planning policies designed to meet the inevitable challenge of future (large- scale) urbanization and the implementation of planning procedures and approaches adapted to the suggested policies, while assessing potential impacts.
Meeting the Challenge of Future Urbanization
Feiner, Jacques (author) / Mi, Shiwen (author) / Schmid, Willy A. (author)
disP - The Planning Review ; 37 ; 10-18
2001-01-01
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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