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City shrinkage in China: scalar processes of urban and hukou population losses

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Analysis of the latest census data for 2000 and 2010 shows that 88 out of 336 Chinese municipalities suffered combinations of total, urban and hukou population loss. A general ordered logit model examines the ways manufacturing decline, services growth and demographic vitality interact in a specifically Chinese context of population control, contributing empirically and theoretically to studies of city shrinkage. Chinese experience shows that while some cities act as growth engines in emerging economies, others may shrink, and this process may happen before the completion of a rural–urban transition. These findings call for a modification of China’s growth-oriented urban policy.

Source: Regional Studies

DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1335865

Authors: Zhenshan Yang, Michael Dunford

Institutions: Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Cambridge, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Sussex

Language: English

Topic: Urbanization and City Planning

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Development and Reform Commission