Growth, Population and Industrialization and Urban Land Expansion of China
China is experiencing urbanization at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades. The overall goal of this paper is to understand the extent of and the factors driving urban expansion in China from the late-1980s to 2000. We use a nique three-period panel data set of high-resolution satellite imagery data and socioeconomic data for entire area of coterminous China. Consistent with a number of the key hypotheses generated by the monocentric model, our results demonstrate the powerful role that the growth of income has played in China’s urban expansion. In some empirical odels, the other key variables in the monocentric model—population, the value of agricultural land and transportation costsalso matter. Adapting the basic empirical model to account for the environment in developing countries, we also find that industrialization and the rise of the service sector appear to have affected the growth of the urban core, but their role was relatively small when compared to the direct effects of economic growth. We also make a methodological contribution, demonstrating the potential importance of accounting for unobserved fixed effects.
Urbanization spatial scale monocentric urban model industrialization remotesensing econometric analyses decomposition analyses China
Xiangzheng Deng Jikun Huang Scott Rozelle Emi Uchida
the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Stanford University, Encina Hall East, E301 Stanford, CA 94305-6055, USA. Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics,University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rho
国际会议
杭州
英文
2007-10-13（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）