Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid – albeit geographically uneven – local and regional economic growth during the past few decades. Notwithstanding this development pattern, China has been investing heavily in targeted coastal and inland regions through planning policies for infrastructure, location and cities. This is a largely place-based investment process that is of great importance for the public, business and policymakers. China’s urban and regional transformations provide incentives for spatial agglomeration and will shift the growth of activities within and across cities for decades to come. This spatial differentiation is likely to be driven by government decisions at all levels about where, when and in what to invest, in an institutional context where policy instruments act to constrain or facilitate China’s urban and regional development.



Economics of Planning Policies in China looks at the role that the institutional characteristics of the Chinese planning system and market mechanisms play in transforming and shaping the infrastructure, location and cities with the potential for spatial disparity and inclusive growth. The planning and geographical perspective and evidence make this book a reference for international scholars, policymakers and graduates



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Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid – albeit geographically uneven – local and regional economic growth during the past few decades. Notwithstanding this development pattern, China has been investing heavily in targeted coastal and inland regions through planning policies for infrastructure, location and cities. This is a largely place-based investment process that is of great importance for the public, business and policymakers. China’s urban and regional transformations provide incentives for spatial agglomeration and will shift the growth of activities within and across cities for decades to come. This spatial differentiation is likely to be driven by government decisions at all levels about where, when and in what to invest, in an institutional context where policy instruments act to constrain or facilitate China’s urban and regional development.



Economics of Planning Policies in China looks at the role that the institutional characteristics of the Chinese planning system and market mechanisms play in transforming and shaping the infrastructure, location and cities with the potential for spatial disparity and inclusive growth. The planning and geographical perspective and evidence make this book a reference for international scholars, policymakers and graduates



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Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

by Wen-jie Wu
Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities

by Wen-jie Wu

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Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid – albeit geographically uneven – local and regional economic growth during the past few decades. Notwithstanding this development pattern, China has been investing heavily in targeted coastal and inland regions through planning policies for infrastructure, location and cities. This is a largely place-based investment process that is of great importance for the public, business and policymakers. China’s urban and regional transformations provide incentives for spatial agglomeration and will shift the growth of activities within and across cities for decades to come. This spatial differentiation is likely to be driven by government decisions at all levels about where, when and in what to invest, in an institutional context where policy instruments act to constrain or facilitate China’s urban and regional development.



Economics of Planning Policies in China looks at the role that the institutional characteristics of the Chinese planning system and market mechanisms play in transforming and shaping the infrastructure, location and cities with the potential for spatial disparity and inclusive growth. The planning and geographical perspective and evidence make this book a reference for international scholars, policymakers and graduates




Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367870461
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/12/2019
Series: Regions and Cities
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 252
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Wen-jie Wu is an Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figures



List of tables



Foreword I by Professor Paul Cheshire



Foreword II by Professor Siqi Zheng



Acknowledgements



PART I Overview



1 Introduction



2 Fundamentals of China’s planning policies



PART II Spatial evolution of planning policies in China



3 Planning for spatial development in the post-war era



4 Planning for transformation: spatial economic prosperity and disparity



5 Planning for urban and regional agglomeration



PART III Planning implications: infrastructure, location and cities



6 Dynamics of urban networks: evidence from airport infrastructure expansion



7 Geographical evolution of railway network development



8 Market reform, land development and urban vibrancy



PART IV Conclusions



9 Concluding remarks



Index

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