Urbanization and sustainable metropolitan development in China: Patterns, problems and prospects* |
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| Authors: | Roger CK Chan Yao Shimou |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China, e-mail;(2) Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, P.R. China |
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| Abstract: | The path of urbanization in the People's Republic of China is largely shaped by the nation's industrial development strategies.
In the first three decades of socialist construction, and especially after the Sino-Soviet rift at the end of the 1950s, the
adoption of strategies of self-reliance had led to urban biased patterns of development. The introduction of economic reforms
and the open door policy in 1978 paved the way for and facilitated national economic development. Two issues, which feature
significantly in the processes of development in China, are assessed. The first is the relationship between economic development
and the protection of arable land. The second is the quest for a coordinated hyper-development in both urban and rural areas.
This paper concludes by proposing a sustainable metropolitan development strategy that suits the case of China.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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| Keywords: | China environment sustainable development urbanization |
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