Metropolitan planning in the context of territorial spatial planning:Positioning,technological system and implementation guarantee
This paper systematically investigated the positioning,technological system and implementation guarantee measures of metropolitan planning.Metropolitan planning is positioned as a specialized planning for specific regions in the territorial spatial planning system.By clarifying the geographical definition and connota-scope of metropolitan area as the fundamental basis of research,following logical steps of"central city-urban-ized area-functional area".Most of all,a new technological system of metropolitan planning was established from a goal-oriented,problem-oriented and implementation-focused perspective as follows.Firstly,an ap-proach to overcome the local benefit contradiction in metropolitan planning may be to unify the demands of different cities into a common goal of development,calling for collaborative and concerted actions on construc-tion of traffic network,industrial development,market consolidation,science and technology cooperation,in-formation sharing and ecological restoration through metropolitan area.Secondly,what to plan in metropolitan planning should take into account the different development stages and government affairs.On one hand,a sys-tematic analysis on the content of metropolitan planning was conducted in this paper following the principles of"corresponding to the development stages"to achieve the objective of practicability and validity;on the other hand,the key to adjust the overlapping content of plans is to figure out the responsibility of planning authority of the central and local governments,and to link the content with limited administrative jurisdictions of the metropolitan government.Last but not the least,the paper suggested to speed up the innovation of mechanism in order to optimize the implementation of metropolitan planning,and a guarantee system for the implementa-tion was proposed with improvements from 5 aspects:institutional construct,coordination mechanism,law in-surance,finance support and policy enforcement.It provided advanced theoretical references and methodolo-gical guidance for the spatial planning and governance of China's metropolitan area in the new era.