Optimization of City-Industry Integration Evaluation in Conjunction with Plan Formulation:The Practice in Wuhan
City-industry integration,a prominent urban strategy for Chinese cities,has received widespread attention from both academia and planning professionals.However,the existing research on evaluating city-industry integration is often discon-nected from planning practices,hindering the integration of the strategy into plan for-mulation and implementation.This study,guided by government mandates for differ-ent levels of territorial spatial planning,presents a new approach to optimizing city-industry integration evaluation in conjunction with plan formulation.The approach fo-cuses on district plan and regulatory plan levels,encompassing evaluations for both city-industry integration units and regulatory plan units.Wuhan Economic and Tech-nological Development Zone(WEDZ)has adopted this approach in its planning prac-tice.The study finds that the integration indicators in terms of industrial space,ur-ban space,and human perception in the WEDZ are unsatisfactory,and the process of city-industry integration is lagging due to its ineffectiveness evaluation and con-trol mechanisms in planning practice.The study suggests that city-industry integra-tion evaluation should be incorporated into the planning practice to inform plan mak-ing and amendment.Based on the evaluation results,the study provides recommenda-tions for optimizing plans for WEDZ at both the district plan and regulatory plan levels,providing robust support for the integrated development of industry,city,and people.
urban-industrial integrationevaluation optimizationplan formulationcity-industry integration unitregulatory planning unitWuhan Economic and Techno-logical Development Zone(WEDZ)