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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhao, Jingzhu
• Xiao, Lishan
• Tang, Lina
• Shi, Longyu
• Su, Xiaodan
• Wang, Huina
• Song, Yu
• Shao, Guofan

Titel

Effects of spatial form on urban commute for major cities in China

Ist Teil von

• International journal of sustainable development and world ecology, 2014-07, Vol.21 (4), p.361-368

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The global phenomenon of urbanization increases the importance of compact-city development. China's rapid urban development has resulted in unprecedented urban population growth and built-up area expansion, but its effects on urban morphology and mobility are only partly understood. City compactness can be measured simply using urban spatial form or morphology: the more concentrated the built-up area, the more compact the city is. Here we show that 35 major cities in China are not compact in spatial form and that their compactness is not improving over time. Our results reveal close correlations between changes in urbanization rate and changes in city compactness as well as between city compactness and commuting time (CT), indicating that the high rate of urbanization without adequate planning has contributed to the poor compactness of Chinese cities, which has further increased CT. We suggest that continuing urban sprawl with low land use efficiency and low urban form compactness will make cities in China more congested and threaten China's sustainable urbanization.