To What Extent Can Satellite Cities and New Towns Serve as a Steering Instrument for Polycentric Urban Expansion during Massive Population Growth? A Comparative Analysis of Tokyo and Shanghai

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Abstract

In response to the call of the New Urban Agenda—Habitat III for a reinvigoration of long-term and integrated planning towards sustainable urban development, this paper presents an empiri-cal comparative study of planning practices based on the “satellite city” and “new town” con-cepts in Tokyo and Shanghai to examine from a long-term perspective how well they have guided polycentric urban development at a time of massive population growth. We aim to deliver evi-dence-based contributions to boost the knowledge transfer between the Global North and the Global South. The paper adopts a multi-dimensional framework for the comparative analysis, including a review of long-term urban development policies and an inspection of the population distribution and extent of built-up areas using time-specific categorizations to map the spatio-temporal changes based on GHSL data. The comparative analysis shows that urban plans in To-kyo and Shanghai based on satellite cities and new towns as steering instruments for polycentric urban growth management have not lived up to the original aspirations. In fact, the intended steering of population distribution has essentially failed, despite the practical steps undertaken.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number234
Number of pages15
JournalISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Volume12 (2023)
Issue number6
Publication statusPublished - 6 Jun 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 85164014467
Mendeley 469588d4-a5ae-3ec4-9e15-aa09ca3ed03a
ORCID /0000-0002-9524-3560/work/142252274
RIS urn:0CF64C98355A256F43804750C537A205

Keywords

Keywords

  • high urban concentrations, polycentric urban structure, built-up and population density, GHSL, massive population growth, satellite city and new town concepts

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