Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics

doi:10.1111/geoj.12266

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	Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics
	Li, He 1; Mykhnenko, Vlad 2,3
	2018-12-01
发表期刊	GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL
ISSN	0016-7398
卷号	184 期号:4 页码:398-412
通讯作者	Mykhnenko, Vlad(vlad.mykhnenko@conted.ox.ac.uk)
摘要	This study exposes and maps a hitherto little-known dimension of China's urban geography - that of shrinkage, directly affecting one in 10 of its cities. Urban shrinkage is revealed to be a growing concern for the most populous country on earth, with the absolute number of shrinking cities rising by 71% from 164 in the 1990s to 281 in the 2000s. By developing its own definition of the city as an urban area (UA) in the Chinese political-administrative context, this paper builds a morphologic taxonomy of China's shrinking cities. This reveals the overall net population loss across Chinese shrinking cities more than doubling since 1990, reaching 7.3 million inhabitants in 2010. Sixty-eight Chinese UAs, mostly in north-eastern China, are found to have been shrinking continuously since 1990. Despite the multifaceted and entangled make-up of urban shrinkage, the paper identifies four distinct causes of this geographical phenomenon in China: (1) state-incubated reindustrialisation and economic restructuring, impacting upon 63% of all shrinking UAs; (2) the country's new economic geography, with the underlying centripetal forces of agglomeration pushing around 34% of all shrinking cities towards marginalisation; (3) state-propelled demographic change, leading to natural population decline in 26% of Chinese shrinking cities; and (4) state-sponsored mega-shrinkage, responsible for urban population loss in almost 20% of all the cases. This study further provides a theoretically informed reflection on the peculiarity of shrinkage in China and its public policy implications.
关键词	China decline mapping shrinking cities urban morphology urbanization
DOI	10.1111/geoj.12266
关键词[WOS]	ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY ; EUROPEAN CITIES ; PATH DEPENDENCY ; GROWTH ; POPULATION ; CAPITALISM ; DECLINE ; MODEL
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	China Scholarship Council ; Economic and Social Research Council[ES/R000352/1] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41001097] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571152] ; China Scholarship Council ; Economic and Social Research Council[ES/R000352/1] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41001097] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571152] ; China Scholarship Council ; Economic and Social Research Council[ES/R000352/1] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41001097] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571152]
项目资助者	China Scholarship Council ; Economic and Social Research Council ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向	Geography
WOS类目	Geography
WOS记录号	WOS:000449888900005
出版者	WILEY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ciomp.ac.cn/handle/181722/60277
专题	中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所
通讯作者	Mykhnenko, Vlad
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Northeast Inst Geog & Agroecol, Changchun, Jilin, Peoples R China 2.Univ Oxford, St Peters Coll, Oxford, England 3.Univ Oxford, Dept Continuing Educ, Oxford, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, He,Mykhnenko, Vlad. Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics[J]. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL,2018,184(4):398-412.
APA	Li, He,&Mykhnenko, Vlad.(2018).Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics.GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL,184(4),398-412.
MLA	Li, He,et al."Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics".GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL 184.4(2018):398-412.