A Comparative Analysis of the Interaction between Urban-Rural Construction Land Transition and Population Flow: Dominant and Recessive Perspectives

Shanshan Xiang, Liping Shan, Wuzhou Li and Lingyan Huang ()
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Shanshan Xiang: College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000, China
Liping Shan: Business School, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China
Wuzhou Li: School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430000, China
Lingyan Huang: School of Business, Hangzhou City University, Hangzhou 310000, China

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-21

Abstract: Population flow caused by rapid urbanization has driven the urban-rural construction land transition. A systematic recognition of their interaction is essential for achieving coordinated and sustainable urban-rural development. We chose Hangzhou, one of the most urbanized cities in China, as the study area to analyze this interaction from the perspectives of dominant morphology and recessive morphology during the period of 2010 to 2020. From the perspective of dominant morphology, a structured analysis method is applied to assess the variation in the internal components. A dynamic land utilization efficiency index is proposed and combined with an original static land utilization efficiency index to comprehensively portray a complete periodicity of urban-rural construction land transition and population flow from the perspective of recessive morphology. Results demonstrate that the path dependence of rural industrialization leads to a seemingly stagnant urban-rural construction land transition in Hangzhou. Meanwhile, the rapid increase in the demographic urbanization rate has been supported by the massive inflow of external migrants. Based on the more stringent dynamic land utilization efficiency index and the more comprehensive combination of static and dynamic indices, the moderate expansion of urban construction land increases the proportion of township-level units of the intensive land utilization pattern while, instead of population loss, the general non-intensive land utilization pattern in rural areas has been driven by the overexpansion of rural residential land.

Keywords: urban-rural construction land transition; population flow; dominant morphology; recessive morphology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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