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100 _aYang, Yizhao
_956468
245 _aCurbing Sprawl with Development-limiting Boundaries in Urban China:
_bA Review of Literature/
260 _bSage,
_c2020.
300 _aVol 35, Issue 1, 2020 ( 25–40 p.)
520 _aFacing the need to control urban sprawl, many Chinese cities are exploring the use of development-limiting boundaries, such as urban growth boundary (UGB) and urban development boundary (UDB), as required by the central government. Through a key word search of several databases including Web of Science and China National Knowledge Infrastructure, we identified and reviewed hundreds of articles published in academic or professional journals. Our review shows that policy processes discussed in the literature have emphasized the technical aspect with analytical sophistication. We identified three types of approach to UGB and UDB in the literature: the growth-driven, the constraint-oriented, and the hybrid. While urban theories and modeling techniques that originated from Western countries have greatly influenced the analytical process underlying some of these approaches, the UGB/UDB policy debate and explorations were also responsive to China’s unique urban and policy conditions. Despite the rich empirical content in the literature, very little research has been grounded in a scientific understanding of China’s urban development. Issues such as intergovernmental coordination, policy enforcement, and evaluation were also inadequately addressed in the existing literature. The literature’s newness may have been a major factor for these limitations. Our critique of the current literature may inspire new areas of research to generate knowledge that can inform China’s continuous policy efforts to combat urban sprawl.
700 _aZhang, Lei
_951891
700 _aYe, Yumin
_956469
700 _aWang, Zhifang
_956470
773 0 _09169
_917010
_dCalifornia Sage Publications
_tJournal of planning literature
_x08854122
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0885412219874145
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