Urban Land Development for Industrial and Commercial Use: A Case Study of Beijing

Chuanzhun Sun, Chao Sun, Zhenshan Yang, Jikang Zhang and Yu Deng
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Chuanzhun Sun: College of Public Management, South China Agricultural University, No. 483, Wushan Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510642, China
Chao Sun: Department of Engineering Physics, Institute of Public Safety Research, Tsinghua University, Zhongguancun North Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China
Zhenshan Yang: Key Lab of Regional Sustainable Development and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Bejing 100101, China
Jikang Zhang: Shenzhen Urban Planning & Land Resource Research Center, 8009 Hongli Road, Futian District, Shenzhen 518040, China
Yu Deng: Key Lab of Regional Sustainable Development and Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Bejing 100101, China

Sustainability, 2016, vol. 8, issue 12, 1-18

Abstract: Since the 20th century, urbanization has been the main characteristic of global land development. If we can reveal and understand the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of urban development, we can then identify a sustainable development pattern for cities. In this paper, we primarily focus on the determinants of two main types of land use in urban development, industrial and commercial, in an empirical study of Beijing. We use a spatial data analysis method to seek and model major determinants of industrial and commercial land growth in the period of 2000–2010 in Beijing. A spatial logistic regression model is used to explore the impact of spatial independent variables on these two types of land use. The study shows that: (1) newly-added industrial land during 2000–2010 received significant contributions from the number of local enterprises engaged in services in 2010, the use of land for agriculture and construction in the neighborhood in 2000 and planning orders; (2) factors contributing to land transferred for commercial use included the number of enterprises, construction land in the neighborhood and accessibility improvement.

Keywords: urban development; industrial land; commercial land; growth; Beijing (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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