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Wang, H. The role of informal ruralization within China’s rapid urbanization. Nat Cities 1, 205–215 (2024)

Objective:

  • City-wide occurrence of the Kaihuang policicies and understand their broader distribution and interaction with the urban environment

Case:

  • Wuhan, China

Methodology:

  • Machine learning

Data Source: Open

Findings:

  • The occurrences of kaihuang are not limited to any particular region but it is possible to find instances across the majority of provinces in China
  • A total of 97.4% of the sites had undergone typical processes of rapid urbanization post-2000, and 66.7% were land that had been vacants since its demolition from rural land, 19.7% were undeveloped land that were used as construction staging areas
  • Rapid urbanization is one of the leading causes
  • Land use after the emergence of kaihuang showed that 24.4% have been redeloped as buildings and 5.9% as parks or green space, while 69.7% of the sites remain undeveloped never returned
  • City is often decribeds as loud/continuous noise, every is expensive, foreign, and a place of struggle

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