Megacity Growth, City System and Urban Strategy

Chengri Ding, Xiao He () and Yongming Zhu ()
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Chengri Ding: Urban Studies and Planning Program, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA2School of Public Administration, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, Henan Province, P.R. China
Xiao He: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, No. 100, Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, P. R. China
Yongming Zhu: School of Management Engineering, Zhengzhou University, No. 100, Kexue Avenue, Zhengzhou 450001, Henan Province, P. R. China

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), 2022, vol. 10, issue 01, 1-19

Abstract: This paper analyzes the development pattern of 35 megacities from 1980 to 2020 and examines the impact of megacity’s growth on the city system. We use primacy, urban concentration, Zipf’s coefficient, and entropy to characterize the city system in a country with a megacity. Our analysis finds the following: (1) The growth rates of megacities are faster than the totals of the national population and national urban population in general; (2) the growth of megacities makes the city system diverge; (3) the development of megacities tends to be companied by the shrinking of small cities; and (4) emerging megacities has substantial impacts on urbanization strategy, urban planning, and policy.

Keywords: Urbanization; megacity; urban system; urban development strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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