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- Title
Optimizing Urban Stock Space through District Boundary Reorganization: Hangzhou's Administrative Adjustment.
- Authors
Chao, Fei; You, Chen; Jin, Wen
- Abstract
Since China is the largest developing country in the world, its urban reconstruction has significance for countries undergoing rapid urbanization. The recent development of its central cities has gradually changed from large-scale incremental expansion to stock optimization. District boundary reorganization has become a new trend in reforming China's administrative division of central cities. From the perspective of scalar reorganization and regional reconstruction, the adjustment of urban administrative divisions can be regarded as a regional construction strategy initiated by city governments to reshape the spatial structure, improve the governance relationship, and enhance the cities' competitiveness. This study takes Hangzhou, an important central city in eastern China, as a case study to illustrate two ways in which a central city can optimize its urban spaces through district boundary recombination: scale recombination and regional recombination. The findings demonstrate two advantages of district boundary reorganization for China's central cities: it eases the integration of new city districts and urban areas and promotes balanced development within the city. In the future, more Chinese cities will likely choose to reorganize their district boundaries.
- Subjects
HANGZHOU (China); CHINA; INNER cities; CITIES &; towns; ADMINISTRATIVE &; political divisions; DEVELOPING countries; URBAN morphology; MUNICIPAL government; PUBLIC spaces; URBAN growth
- Publication
Land (2012), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 5, p959
- ISSN
2073-445X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/land12050959