Coordinated Relationship between Compactness and Land-Use Efficiency in Shrinking Cities: A Case Study of Northeast China

Yangyang Wang, Yanjun Liu, Guolei Zhou, Zuopeng Ma, Hongri Sun and Hui Fu
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Yangyang Wang: School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China
Yanjun Liu: School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China
Guolei Zhou: School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China
Zuopeng Ma: Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4888 Shengbei Street, Changchun 130102, China
Hongri Sun: School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China
Hui Fu: School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun 130024, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: Compact development and efficient land use are effective ways to address the development dilemma and boost the vitality of shrinking cities. Moreover, it is critical to investigate the relationship between compactness and land-use efficiency in order to healthily and sustainably develop shrinking cities. This study developed an analytical framework to study the coordinated interaction between urban compactness and land-use efficiency in the context of city shrinkage. Fifteen typical shrinking cities in Northeast China were taken as an example of the phenomenon and the entropy value method and super-slack-based measure model were used to quantitatively measure the compactness and land-use efficiency. Furthermore, the coordinated development level and the coordinated relationship between the two were explored with the help of the coupled coordination degree model as well as the quadrant diagram method. The results of the study show that: (1) The overall level of compactness of 15 shrinking cities in Northeast China was low and the improvement of land-use efficiency was not obvious, while the differences of compactness and land-use efficiency between shrinking cities were significant. (2) The coordination between compactness and land-use efficiency was limited; however, the overall coordination remained intermediate, with significant spatial differences and a tendency to further expand. The problem of lagged development of land-use efficiency in shrinking cities could be characterized as serious. (3) Economic development and population size promote the coordinated development of urban compactness and land-use efficiency, whereas science and technology development, industrial structure, as well as government regulation inhibited the coordinated development of urban compactness and land-use efficiency.

Keywords: shrinking cities; compactness; land-use efficiency; coordinated relationship; Northeast China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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