Journal
REGIONAL STUDIES
Volume 50, Issue 8, Pages 1302-1315Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2015.1004535
Keywords
Polycentric urban region; Urban network; China; Urban form; Transportation flows
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41401178]
- MoE Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences [14YJC790132]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [9154024]
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LIU X., DERUDDER B. and WU K. Measuring polycentric urban development in China: an intercity transportation network perspective, Regional Studies. 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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