Polycentric development and transport network in China's megaregions

Song, Ge

Title:

Polycentric development and transport network in China's megaregions

dc.contributor.advisor	French, Steven P.
dc.contributor.advisor	Yang, Jiawen
dc.contributor.author	Song, Ge
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Stiftel, Bruce
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Drummond, William
dc.contributor.committeeMember	McCarthy, Patrick S.
dc.contributor.department	City and Regional Planning
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-08T18:10:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-09T05:30:07Z
dc.date.created	2014-05
dc.date.issued	2014-03-24
dc.date.submitted	May 2014
dc.date.updated	2015-06-08T18:10:25Z
dc.description.abstract	China’s mega-regions, in addition to cities and metropolitan areas, have become the engines for economic development, and the target areas for regional and national policies. Reflecting upon China’s current path of regional urbanization, the proposed research examines a fundamental issue for China’s megaregional development: the impact of transport network development on the spatial pattern of China’s megaregions. Using the multiple national Censuses (1982, 1990, 2000, 2010) and the transport network GIS data in the corresponding years, this research 1) constructs measures of megaregional spatial patterns, 2) assesses the spatial trajectory of megaregional growth based on the differentiated growth rates of metropolitan cities, 3) computes indicators of megaregional transport network connectivity and accessibility, 4) examines the impacts of transportation infrastructure on megaregional growth trajectory. This research helps understand the spatial structure of China’s megaregions with newly constructed quantitative measures of polycentric spatial development, as well as the intra-megaregion and inter-megaregion variation of transport network in China. It also clarifies the link between transport infrastructure and megaregional spatial structure in China’s unique context by providing quantitative evaluation of the implications of transport investment for the spatial pattern in Chinese megaregions. Finally it enriches the megaregional solutions to China’s vision of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
dc.description.degree	Ph.D.
dc.embargo.terms	2015-05-01
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53415
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	China's megaregions
dc.subject	Polycentric development
dc.subject	Regional growth
dc.subject	Transport infrastructure
dc.subject
dc.subject	Spatial structure
dc.title	Polycentric development and transport network in China's megaregions
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor	French, Steven P.
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Design
local.contributor.corporatename	School of City and Regional Planning
local.relation.ispartofseries	Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in City and Regional Planning
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thesis.degree.level	Doctoral