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This paper offers some background thoughts on recent changes in China, seen from a spatial and transportation viewpoint. It calls attention to a great many uncertainties involved in depicting the future of the Chinese spatial economy and argues that scenario analysis is a meaningful research strategy for coping with an uncertain future. The paper then sets out to explain a systematic approach to scenario analysis and the design of future images. The paper concludes with a multicriteria analysis of various possible spatial development trajectories in China.
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Nijkamp, P. (1999). China in a State of Flux. In: Weidlich, W., Haag, G. (eds) An Integrated Model of Transport and Urban Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60240-5_2
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