- Planning Practices Coping with Migration in Backward Area in Western China：A Case Study of Liupanshui City (Planning towards Migration in Backward Area)   click here to open paper content1135 kb
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Short Outline
The rise of cities in western China is usually based on mineral resources
under government intervention. The population migration shifts from net
inflow to a concurring situation of aggregation of city and net outflow of
region. Planning practices face challenges from expanding the scale of the
city to blending into the region.
Abstract
Liupanshui is a typical case built according to plans to form a modern
industrial city specialized in coal and steel industries locating in
Guizhou Province. Rise of cities in western China is usually based on
mineral resources under government intervention. First residents immigrated
from outside started the prosperity since 1960s, and the migration has
recently been intensified by the improvement of transportation and the
relaxation of migration policies, as well as the environmental migration in
conformity with conservation of nature. The population migration shifts
from net inflow to a concurring situation of aggregation of core city and
net outflow of the region. While undergoing localization: a reducing
population of descendants of the first immigrants and a supplement from the
outskirts, the city confronts a widening gap between urban and rural area
indicated by the literally low urbanization rate and high poverty rate
happening in villages. The pattern of urban system is considered to be a
key factor. A series of plans has been made since 1983 to improve the
capacity of the core city and to reduce the negative effects of the
isolated location, and the planning area has been extended from the city to
the administrative region. Basically, the city has been developing in
accordance to plans. However, the general application of organic
decentralization(E. Saarinen, 1943) and satellite town(G. Taylor, 1915)
theories does not achieve the goal, and a polarized urban system takes
place of the cultivated hierarchy system. In other words, the sets of city
scales in this area do not tend to form hierarchy. This research focuses on
both the realities and plans for comparison to review the principles and
methods taken. Summarize of setting targets and primary methods of the
statutory planning indicates that planning practices in this area face
challenges from expanding the scale of city to blending into the region.
The distribution as well as trend of population and industries is analyzed
to depict the evolvement of the urban system. The radiant intensity of
cities and economic density of the region in different levels is calculated
to illustrate the current connections between neighbor cities. In addition,
transit time and fragile ecological condition contributes to the situation.
Chinese central government proposed a strategy called [quotright]New Model
of Urbanization[quotrightB]laying emphasis on improving the condition of
new immigrants living in cities. The implication of this study involves
reconsideration of planning practices in cities in back-ward area also
regarded as population outflow area. These cities have common problems in
finding paths and driven forces to urbanization to reduce the gap and
avoiding decline.
Keywords
planning practices migration
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice
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