Spatial and Temporal Agglomeration Characteristics and Coupling Relationship of Urban Built-Up Land and Economic Hinterland—A Case Study of the Lower Yellow River, China

Yunfeng Cen, Pengyan Zhang, Yuhang Yan, Wenlong Jing, Yu Zhang, Yanyan Li, Dan Yang, Xin Liu, Wenliang Geng and Tianqi Rong
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Yunfeng Cen: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Pengyan Zhang: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Yuhang Yan: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Wenlong Jing: Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, China
Yu Zhang: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Yanyan Li: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Dan Yang: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Xin Liu: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Wenliang Geng: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
Tianqi Rong: Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for Middle and Lower Yellow River Region, Research Center of Regional Development and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-16

Abstract: Clarifying the development relationship between urban built-up land and economic hinterland can provide decision support for regional sustainable development. Using the improved field model, geographic concentration and elasticity coefficient, and taking the lower reaches of the Yellow River as the study area, this study defines the scope of urban economic hinterland in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in China from 2005 to 2017, further analyzes the dynamic process of urban built-up land agglomeration and economic hinterland agglomeration, and reveals the spatial–temporal coupling relationships of urban built-up land expansion and economic hinterland development. The results revealed the following: (1) From 2005 to 2017, the spatial and temporal change pattern of the economic hinterland of each city in the lower reaches of the Yellow River had basically the same trend, showing a low degree of coincidence with the administrative divisions and obvious differences in scope and change; (2) The geographic concentration of built-up land showed a trend of centering on the cities of Zhengzhou and Jinan, spreading to the periphery, and gradually forming a high-value contiguous area in both cities. The spatial distribution patterns of the geographic concentration of economic hinterland are mainly manifested in Zhengzhou and Jinan, showing a circle structure of areas with “highest-low-higher” concentrations of economic hinterland moving away from the urban center; (3) The spatial–temporal coupling between the expansion of urban built-up land and the development of economic hinterland underwent an obvious transformation process. From 2005 to 2011, the coupling mode was mainly growth, and, from 2011 to 2017, it began to shift to extensive and intensive development. The coupling model of urban built-up land and economic hinterland in the lower reaches of the Yellow River has a good trend.

Keywords: economic hinterland; built-up land; agglomeration characteristics; coupling relationship; the Lower Yellow River (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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