Urban spill over vs. local urban sprawl: Entangling land-use regulations in the urban growth of China's megacities

Land Use Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1031-1045

  Yaping, Wei ^a   Min, Zhao ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Guangzhou; Land use planning; Land use regulation; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

IDEOLOGY; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LAND REFORM; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDOWNERSHIP; LOCAL PLANNING; STAKEHOLDER; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; GUANGZHOU;

EID: 64049107687     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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