Abstract
Due to a lack of the realization mechanism and operational pattern of the urban-rural integration by land use, this study employs land use to regulate interface elements to achieve urban-rural integration development. Therefore, we analyzed urban-rural reality in Pukou District of Nanjing City, a typical metropolitan fringe of China, and investigated farmers’ willingness of typical representative villages. The results show that (1) According to the combination of resource environment, development intensity and development potential, Pukou District is divided into four land use areas, including optimization integration area, key development area, urban agricultural area, and ecotourism area. Most of the investigated farmers have a strong willingness to realize urban-rural integration by land use; (2) This study proposes an operational pattern of regional land use. The pattern is mainly based on “reality + willingness + policy” by using the three tools of “farmland reconsolidation, village reconstruction and factor reallocation”. It achieves urban-rural integration development through “zoning guidance–willingness driven–pattern selection–differentiated tools”.
Highlights
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Once the development reaches to the middle stage of industrialization, the imbalance between the urban and rural development will become a major obstacle, and it must rely on urban-rural integration to realize the regional socioeconomic rapid development
Pukou District is divided into four land use areas, including optimization integration area, key development area, urban agricultural area and ecotourism area
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. China is in the transformation stage of industry nurturing agriculture and city supporting village [9,10,11] In this period, the imbalance of urban and rural regions is the prominent contradiction in the current economic and social development. It considers industry and agriculture, city, and village as a unity It promotes the integration of urban and rural regions in economy, society, environment, and ecology through system reform and policy adjustment, especially new urbanization and rural revitalization. Many scholars have attempted to solve the problems facing agriculture, countryside and farmers from the perspective of rural geography [21,22] They have concentrated on the land use change and rural transformation development through theoretical research and practical exploration. The study will provide the theoretical basis and practical reference for urban-rural integration development
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