Urban and Rural Land Development and Redevelopment in the Process of Urbanization
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 42524
Special Issue Editors
Interests: institutional analysis; spatial analysis; land development; land redevelopment
Interests: collaborative planning; urban-rural land development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, extensive and rapid urbanization in developing countries has profoundly changed the landscape of urban and rural areas and restructured the relationships between them. Large scales of rural land have been converted into urban land in the urbanization process. At the same time, redevelopment of urban and rural construction land has also become an important part of urban and rural development. This involves a wide range of different stakeholders such as the government at different levels, various property developers, property/land owners, and residents. Land development and redevelopment are thus key issues in creating livable and sustainable cities. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding on the process and consequences of land development and redevelopment in the urbanization process.
As the processes of worldwide urbanization are embedded in different institutional and socioeconomic contexts, they present various features and provide divergent conditions and challenges for land development and redevelopment. In recent decades, the roles and behaviors of stakeholders have altered in the process of urbanization, while new institutional arrangements, policies, and governance models have been developed for conflict resolution in the processes of urban and rural land development and redevelopment. The new dynamics of urbanization and land development also have socioeconomic implications for local residents. Therefore, timely investigations on recent land development and redevelopment practices are urgently needed to better understand the complexity and sustainability of cities in the dynamic urbanization process. To fill this gap, this Special Issue calls for papers to provide new empirical, methodological, and theoretical insights into processes of land development and redevelopment in diverse environments and socioeconomic settings.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcomed. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Governance models and stakeholder engagement in land development and redevelopment in the urbanization process;
- Institutional arrangements and policies for land development and redevelopment;
- Urban planning in land development and redevelopment;
- Social and economic impacts of land development and redevelopment;
- Sustainable land development and redevelopment.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yani Lai
Dr. Yanliu Lin
Dr. Yan Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land development
- land redevelopment
- informal development
- land governance
- land use changes
- urban and rural land
- urbanization
- socioeconomic impacts
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