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Spatial Planning Articulated in Suzhou Municipal 11th FYP: Plan Coordination and Development Control

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Changing Spatial Elements in Chinese Socio-economic Five-year Plan: from Project Layout to Spatial Planning

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This chapter examines how the current planning administration and local political-economic context of land development have affected the role of the new spatial planning articulated in Suzhou municipal 11th FYP. It is shaped by both top-down regulations and, local discretion and manipulation. Subsequently, spatial planning is becoming a complicated arena and the planning is mixed by central control and local initiatives with various levels of intervention.

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Notes

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    Interview 20120804 and 20121216.

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    Interview, 20130712.

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    According to the Urban Planning Act in article 21, urban planning of the cities directly under the central government’s administration or with population of more than 1 million should be submitted to State Council for examination and approval.

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    The No. 21 communiqué of Suzhou municipal government’s executive meeting in 2010.

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    The No. 3 communiqué of Suzhou municipal government’s executive meeting in 2013.

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    Wu County was incorporated into Suzhou city proper in 2001 and divided into two urban districts of Wuzhong and Xiangcheng.

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    According to the Code for Classification of Urban Land Use and Planning Standards of Development Land (GBJ137-9), the current per capita construction land area in Central City Area determines the per capita construction land area in the planning horizon.

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    Interview 20130622.

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    Interview 20120715.

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    Interview 20120715 and 20130709.

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    Interview 20120524 and 20121216.

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    Interview 20130617.

  13. 13.

    The Hot Spot analysis is also Getis-Ord Gi* statistic, employed to find out the local high growth clusters of urban sprawl. The index is calculated by \( G_{i}^{*} \left( d \right) = \sum\nolimits_{j}^{n} {W_{ij} \left( d \right)x_{j} } /\sum\nolimits_{j}^{n} {x_{j} } \), where d is Wij is a symmetric one/zero spatial weight within a per-given distance d’, xj are the annual growth amount of construction land in grid j. For details, see Getis and Ord (1992).

  14. 14.

    Interview, 20120716, based on comparison with the national second land survey in 2009.

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    Interview 20130306.

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    Interview, 20130524.

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    Interview, 20140507.

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Wang, L. (2019). Spatial Planning Articulated in Suzhou Municipal 11th FYP: Plan Coordination and Development Control. In: Changing Spatial Elements in Chinese Socio-economic Five-year Plan: from Project Layout to Spatial Planning. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1867-2_6

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