Quota Restrictions on Land Use for Decelerating Urban Sprawl of Mega City: A Case Study of Shanghai, China

Yunqian Zhang, Zhenjie Chen, Qianwen Cheng, Chen Zhou, Penghui Jiang, Manchun Li and Dong Chen
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Yunqian Zhang: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Zhenjie Chen: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Qianwen Cheng: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Chen Zhou: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Penghui Jiang: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Manchun Li: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Dong Chen: Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 10, 1-17

Abstract: The mega cities of China are faced with great pressure from conflict between huge land demand for construction use and limited resources. To improve this situation, it is necessary to slow the increasing rate of built-up land and even reduce the existing built-up land by improving land use efficiency. Herein, land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration is proposed. Land quotas are important tools for the control of land use planning in China, but the current quotas are mainly in the form of increment, thus cannot support land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration. To address these issues, we developed a model named “current-plan-requirement response (CPRR)”, to optimize the land quotas. With this model, we investigated the current status of land use, the process of land use planning, and the requirements of land use planning with urban sprawl deceleration in Shanghai. It was found that the current land quotas have provided somewhat inhabited conversion of arable land to built-up land, but scarcely any regulation of land use efficiency or protection of natural environment. Then, the land quotas were optimized and quota management recommendations were made. The optimized land quotas included four aspects of quotas: arable land protection, ecological conservation, scale constraint on built-up land and economical and intensive land use. These new land quotas could be used to guide reduction of built-up land and increase ecological land in China’s mega cities. It might also be beneficial for easing conflict between supply and demand of built-up land, for building an eco-friendly city land-use structure.

Keywords: land use planning; land quota; CPRR; built-up land; Shanghai (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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