Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5287323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | He Li (0000-0003-0927-7666, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun China), Li He (0000-0002-4720-8269, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Vlad Mykhnenko (0000-0001-8944-0608, St Peter's College University of Oxford Oxford UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 184 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 398-412 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/geoj.12266 |
| OpenAlex | W2885614746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 45 |
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 ChineseUAs, 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 shrinkingUAs; (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
Business · China · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Resizing · Restructuring · Shrinkage · Sociology · Urban agglomeration · Demography · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
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| Unique citing works | 41 |
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| Citations per year | 5,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |