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Abstract
Urban fringes are an important part of urban growth. In addition to formal land markets, a variety of informal land development methods make urban fringes the most dynamic and complicated areas. The analysis of land transfer and development systems in these areas opens a significant window to understanding the modern processes of urbanization and human and property rights in urban areas in China. This study uses Shanghai as a case study target and identifies specific modes of local land development and investigates how collective participants, government agencies, regulatory policies, and various actors are involved in land development and decision making. The in-depth analysis and case studies indicate that the variety of informal land markets in Shanghai reflects the inherent demands of the market for allocation of land resources within the constraints of the given system and against the given development background. However, conflicts between the mode of the market and the existing institutional constraints reflect the uncoordinated development of the land and the economic and social development around the urban fringe. The empirical results of this paper suggest that government administration should improve the land market system, strengthen the planning of control and guidance, rationalize the distribution of interests in land development, and strengthen the supervision of management of land development enterprises. Instead of fragmented aspects, this paper proposes a systematic analytical approach to understanding the informal land development in a city from an urban planning and land resource management perspective.
Highlights
The rural–urban fringe lies between the built-up urban and suburban areas of the central city
This study summarized and analyzed the four modes of informal land development activity existing in the urban fringes of Shanghai
Collectives are the primary agent of informal land development
Summary
The rural–urban fringe lies between the built-up urban and suburban areas of the central city. A large number of studies concentrated on how land use reforms in China unlocked the process of land redevelopment in the central city [10,17] and incentivized in situ urbanization processes from below [11,12,13,21]. They focused on the critical social, economic, and environmental conflicting issues, such as compulsive land expropriation, urban village, township and village enterprise, as well as agricultural land loss. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings in relation to the relevant literature
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