Innovation agglomeration and urban hierarchy: evidence from Chinese cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Fei Fan ◽  
Shangze Dai ◽  
Keke Zhang ◽  
Haiqian Ke
Keyword(s):  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Chinese Cities

Urban Infrastructure Financing in Reform-era China

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (14) ◽  
pp. 2975-2998 ◽  
Author(s):  
De Wang ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Zhao Zhang ◽  
Simon Xiaobin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Significant Variation ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Opening Up

Urban infrastructure has been substantially upgraded in reform-era China. This paper explains, contextually and empirically, how Chinese cities finance their infrastructure. It demonstrates that China has succeeded in addressing urban infrastructure backlogs by opening up new venues for financing, but simultaneously, heavily relying on unconventional sources. The paper also argues that urban infrastructure financing has much to do with the country’s transition to a market-oriented economy that fosters the pro-growth role of city governments as well as the redistribution of fiscal power between the levels of the urban hierarchy that produces significant variation of financial capacities among the different administrative ranks of cities.

scholarly journals Ranking Asia-Pacific cities: Economic performance of multinational corporations and the regional urban hierarchy

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
György Csomós ◽  
Ben Derudder
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control

Abstract Over the past decade the world economy has undergone significant changes with an impact not only on national economies but also on the key cities from which that world economy is largely being controlled. In this study, we use Forbes’ ‘Global 2000’ data on the headquarter location and size of the world’s leading multinational corporations in order to examine the shifting relative position of leading Asia-Pacific cities as command and control centres in this increasingly important part of the world economy. Comparing cities’ positions in 2006 and 2011, we present that Tokyo, which assumed a leading role in the region for decades, has seen a major decline in its command and control function, while Beijing now represents almost as much as command and control as the Japanese capital. Beijing’s fast growth in command and control is also found for Chinese cities, albeit that Beijing clearly dominates the other Chinese cities. In addition, we present that shifting patterns of command and control also hinge on the sectors dominating the Forbes 2000 ranking.

Innovating in “lagging” cities: A comparative exploration of the dynamics of innovation in Chinese cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 102475
Author(s):  
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose ◽  
Callum Wilkie ◽  
Min Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Cities

Introduction: Imagining Chinese Cities

2013 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Jeroen de Kloet ◽  
Lena Scheen
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Cities

scholarly journals What is beyond the edges? Gated communities and their role in China’s desire for harmonious cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Badiaa Hamama ◽  
Jian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Gated Communities ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Chinese Cities ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
New Urbanization

Abstract During the rapid process of urbanization in post-reform China, cities assumed the role of a catalyst for economic growth and quantitative construction. In this context, territorially bounded and well delimited urban cells, globally known as ‘gated communities’, xiaoqu, continued to define the very essence of Chinese cities becoming the most attractive urban form for city planners, real estate developers, and citizens alike. Considering the guidelines in China’s National New Urbanization Plan (2014–2020), focusing on the promotion of humanistic and harmonious cities, in addition to the directive of 2016 by China’s Central Urban Work Conference to open up the gates and ban the construction of new enclosed residential compounds, this paper raises the following questions: As the matrix of the Chinese urban fabric, what would be the role of the gated communities in China’s desire for a human-qualitative urbanism? And How to rethink the gated communities to meet the new urban challenges? Seeking alternative perspectives, this paper looks at the gated communities beyond the apparent limits they seem to represent, considering them not simply as the ‘cancer’ of Chinese cities, rather the container of the primary ingredients to reshape the urban fabric dominated by the gate.

scholarly journals Effects of COVID-19 on Urban Population Flow in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaorong Jiang ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Shenglan Wang ◽  
Tao Zhang ◽  
Chengpeng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Network Topology ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Clustering Coefficient ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Structure Evolution ◽  
Effective Distance ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
The City

The COVID-19 epidemic has become a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Thus, this sudden health incident has brought great risk and pressure to the city with dense population flow. A deep understanding of the migration characteristics and laws of the urban population in China will play a very positive role in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. Based on Baidu location-based service (LBS) big data, using complex networks method and geographic visualization tools, this paper explores the spatial structure evolution of population flow network (PFN) in 368 cities of China under different traffic control situations. Effective distance models and linear regression models were established to analyze how the population flow across cities affects the spread of the epidemic. Our findings show that: (1) the scope of population flow is closely related to the administrative level of the city and the traffic control policies in various cities which adjust with the epidemic situation; The PFN mainly presents the hierarchical structure dominated by the urban hierarchy and the regional isolation structure adjacent to the geographical location.(2) through the analysis network topology structure of PFN, it is found that only the first stage has a large clustering coefficient and a relatively short average path length, which conforms to the characteristics of small world network. The epidemic situation has a great impact on the network topology in other stages, and the network structure tends to be centralized. (3) The overall migration scale of the whole country decreased by 36.85% compared with the same period of last year’s lunar calendar, and a further reduction of 78.52% in the nationwide traffic control stage after the festival. (4) Finally, based on the comparison of the effective distance and the spatial distance from the Wuhan to other destination cities, it is demonstrated that there is a higher correlation between the effective distance and the epidemic spread both in Hubei province and the whole country.

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