Land Development Control under Motorization Pressure
Will China Have Transit-Friendly Urban Forms?
This article examines the possibility of transit-friendly urban forms in future urban China by examining today’s city government behavior in metropolitan governance and land development control. The selected case is Yongzhou, a middle sized city in Hunan Province. Analysis on urban land development and metropolitan governance indicates that compactness can result from urban planning and development practices when the city government struggles for urban infrastructure financing with land lease revenue. The resulting compact urban form, however, may not be transit-oriented as the planning ideology is to build automobile friendly cities with wide roads, which adds difficulty to non-motorized modes.
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