The impact of urban compactness on urban sustainable development in China: The case of Nanjing

Feifei Tan and Zhaohua Lu

Sustainable Development, 2019, vol. 27, issue 3, 270-280

Abstract: How China's city development takes the course of urban sprawl or urban compactness depends on how urban compactness affects urban sustainable development. Using the vector autoregression (VAR) model, this paper estimates the impact of urban compactness on the urban sustainable development of Nanjing in China during 2005–2015. The results of impulse response analysis show that the responses of social development levels continue to decline after shocks from population compactness and ecological environment coordination, the responses of economic development levels following shocks from public service and ecological environment coordination continue to increase at different speeds, and the responses of ecological environment level keep a slight upward trend following shocks from economic compactness. Moreover, the variance decomposition results demonstrate that most of social development is explained by its own shock, the economic development explained its largest variations, and the contribution from the ecological environment compactness first increases and then decreases.

Date: 2019
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