PROMOTING "STAYING" THROUGH "FLOWING":SPATIAL PATTERN AND PLANNING STRATEGY OF NEW URBANIZATION IN THE COUNTIES OF THE YANGTZE RIVER DELTA
Faced with the reality that facilities provided by China's large cities can hardly meet the needs of 300 million farmers settling down,counties have become a focus of new urbanization.This paper aims to drive the development of county towns and enhance their spatial carrying capacity through guiding the flow of regional resource elements,and ultimately achieve the goal of new urbanization-promoting"population staying"through"elements flowing".The paper analyzes the spatial types,functional mechanisms,and spatial patterns of county towns in the Yangtze River Delta region by developing a theoretical framework of"promoting'staying'through'flowing'",using the Fortune 500 companies'data and mobile signaling data to identify the flow of elements like capital and population,adopting the analysis methods of"big data and questionnaire survey",and using the analytical mechanism of"macro constraints and individual decision-making".The findings reveal that,firstly,county towns in the Yangtze River Delta exhibit two typical development patterns:"networking"and"central flowing".Among them,the"networking"pattern is more likely to achieve the goal of promoting"staying"through"flowing".Secondly,the two typical patterns differ in the mechanisms.The"networking"pattern refers to the balanced flowing of elements inside and outside counties and towns driven by industrial division of labors,while the"central flowing"pattern refers to the flowing of dominant elements in county town under the comprehensive effect of housing and social security.Thirdly,it proposes planning strategies for promoting"staying"through"flowing"from the aspects of urbanization path,spatial carrier,scale borrowing,and spatial governance.
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