Planning control over rural land transformation in Hong Kong: A remote sensing analysis of spatio-temporal land use change patterns

Jingmin Liang, Jiayu Chen, De Tong and Xin Li

Land Use Policy, 2022, vol. 119, issue C

Abstract: Urbanization has led to the expansive conversion of farmland to non-agricultural human settlements. Over the past decades, the rural New Territories in Hong Kong have experienced significant land use changes where agricultural land has become sites for industrial operations (known as brownfields in Hong Kong). This includes open storage for industrial recyclables and warehouses for repairs, many being unauthorized development. The existence of these industrial activities initially driven by socio-economic factors has persisted, largely due to absent or loose land use regulations. The Hong Kong government thus has successively incorporated increasingly more rural areas into the city’s zoning ordinance system, but seemingly has generated marginal impact on reducing non-conforming land uses. How has rural land use transformed in response to planning controls like zoning? How have the spatial patterns of different types of brownfields changed over periods with varying land use regulation focuses?

Keywords: Zoning; Brownfields; Land use change; Rural land; Remote sensing; Hong Kong (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106159

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