Rediscovering the Scaling Law of Urban Land from a Multi-Scale Perspective—A Case Study of Wuhan

Qingsong He, Lingping Huang and Jing Li
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Qingsong He: School of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Lingping Huang: School of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Jing Li: School of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: The law of urban scaling implies that there is a universally applicable nonlinear scaling relationship between population size and urban indicators, which is a method of quantitative analysis that can reflect the growth law and internal logic of the urban system. However, most present research is conducted at the municipal scale, and studies of scaling law in the inner-city system are scarce, especially from the perspective of compact urban form development. The goal of this paper is to discover the scaling law within urban systems from a multi-scale perspective. Through the empirical analysis of Wuhan, this paper examines the internal scale law of the urban system from the municipal and district scales. Moreover, we use the landscape expansion index to perform spatial autocorrelation analysis. In this way, we assess the relationship between the compactness of urban morphological development and the urban scaling law. The results indicate that the temporal scaling law on the city scale has a more significant linear law than the single-year scaling law. The analysis also shows the scaling law relationship within the inner-city system. Nevertheless, there is a deviation between the temporal scaling law and the cross-section scaling law. Namely, the time series development of a district does not follow the section scaling law of the urban system. Furthermore, the urban scaling law shows a negative correlation with the compactness of the urban form development. It is crucial to understand the current economic development and resource endowment of an urban system in the urbanization process, as it significantly contributes to urban development and regional coordinated planning.

Keywords: urban internal system; scaling law; multiscale; urban science (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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