Coupling Ecological Security Pattern Establishment and Construction Land Expansion Simulation for Urban Growth Boundary Delineation: Framework and Application

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

thanks for allowing me to review your manuscript which I read with great interest. Your suggested method may have impact on urban growth planning. The study is well documented and the analysed issues are well argumented.

Please provide information on the theoretical implications of this study and position this theoretical development into a larger urban development context.

The manscript heavily relies on the use of acronyms, but since these are so many,it is difficult to follow what you are talking about. I suggest repeating what the acronyms stand for in the methods and in the findings as well.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is very well written with an excellent explanation of the issues on ecological security pattern establishment and construction land expansion simulation for urban growth boundary delineation. The sections of this work are clear and make the theme clear to the readership. This work adds new knowledge in the field of study and show a great capacity of dealing with a this theme.

The only section that needs more work is the theoretical framework. I found a relevant lack on the literature review about the process of urbanization and its socio-territorial repercussions that contextualize the theme for the international readership:

1) works published on urban sprawl worldwide. Take as reference the following references:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1831742

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2015.1080230?journalCode=ceps20

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098010391303

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275106000461

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427510500003X

2) the distortions provoked by capitalist urban regeneration processes by taking into references some international examples of the way urban renewal and regeneration have taken places, resulting in the increase of urban sprawl:

- 2020. Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich. London: Verso

- 2019. Regenerating Bilbao: From productive industries to productive services. Territorio, 89, 145-154

- 2019. Capital City. Gentrification and the real estate state. London-New York: Verso

- 2017. The icon project: architecture, cities and capitalist globalization. New York: Oxford University Press

- 1962. Urban Renewal in European Countries. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 28 (4), 229-238 (1962)

- 2018. Handbook of gentrification studies. Cheltenham-Northampton: Edward Elgar

 

Please, create a new text to contextualize the issues you are working on through your analysis. It's fundamental expanding the literature review for the international readership. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Thanks for allowing me to review a manuscript of such quality - congratulations for your work! I only miss a little section explaining possible further work, which I encourage you to both include it in the manuscript, and develop it in the future. Best regards.

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

accepted for publication