Progress in Geography, Volume. 39, Issue 2, 327(2020)

A literature review of urban growth boundary: Theory, modeling, and effectiveness evaluation

Ronghui TAN1,1、*, Yaolin LIU2,2, Yanfang LIU2,2, and Qingsong HE3,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 1天津大学管理与经济学部,天津 300072
  • 2School of Resource and Environmental Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • 2武汉大学资源与环境科学学院,武汉 430079
  • 3College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3华中科技大学公共管理学院,武汉 430074
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    The traditional extensive urban land use will not meet the requirements of new urbanization. As a result, controlling urban sprawl and land use optimization have become one of the key tasks of land resources management. The purpose of this study is to provide new perspectives and identify research areas for urban growth boundary study through the review and analysis of existing theoretical models, methods, and effectiveness evaluation cases. The research methods we employed are literature review and induction and deduction. The results indicate that the theoretical basis of urban growth analysis came from monocentric city model. Most studies in China mainly focused on the impact of economic factors, industrial structure, and accessibility on urban growth while public policies and services, externality, and stakeholder power struggles are also thought to have effects on urban growth. Urban growth rigid boundary design is mainly based on suitability and carrying capacity assessments, and elastic boundary is usually modeled by using cellular automata. The effectiveness of urban growth boundary on controlling urban sprawl is different in different cities in developed countries. There are few case studies to evaluate the effectiveness of urban growth boundary in China. We should adopt diversified theories to study the mechanism of urban growth. The effects of multilevel drivers on urban growth should be considered in future research. Most importantly, stakeholder power struggles should be taken into consideration in future elastic boundary modeling. In order to make urban growth boundary policies sustainable and balance regional development, legal and management systems of urban growth boundary should be designed in the future.

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    Received: Feb. 15, 2019

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Sep. 16, 2020

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    DOI:10.18306/dlkxjz.2020.02.013

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