Abstract
Many metropolitan areas around the world aim to control urban growth with a view to achieving efficiency and containing urban problems. Among many urban growth policy tools, the green belt (GB) policy is known as the most rigid and strongest. However, there has been no study on the consequences when GB restrictions are completely removed. The primary purpose of this study is to analyse the spatial effects of greenbelt removal on land development in Korea’s medium-sized cities between 2000 and 2017. To do so, we used the Landsat thematic mapper (TM) 5 satellite image (2000) and Landsat OLI TIRS 8 satellite image (2017) along with various attribute data to model the spatial effects of greenbelt removal in the cases of three medium-sized cities in Korea. The result of difference-in-difference (DID) analysis confirms that the effects of GB removal on land development vary depending on the local conditions of land development.
Highlights
The spatial concentration of population and economic activities in large cities is perceived as a serious social problem in many developing countries
This paper examines the spatial effects of the complete removal of GB restrictions on urban land development using the case of Korean medium-sized cities
Is the greenbelt policy helpful to achieving sustainable development? Or is the greenbelt sustainable? Amati [44] raised the question of whether the GB policy is a useful tool for managing urban growth in the twenty-first century
Summary
The spatial concentration of population and economic activities in large cities is perceived as a serious social problem in many developing countries. To overcome urban problems and to achieve efficiency, many metropolitan areas around the world have adopted various containment policies that aim to control urban growth. Among the kinds of urban containment policies available, a greenbelt (GB), known as the most restrictive form of urban containment policy [1], is a geographical boundary around a city or urban region in which development activity is strongly controlled to prevent urban sprawl. GB policies have been adopted by many cities around world, especially in European and Asian countries [2,3], ever since they were introduced in the Greater London Plan in 1951. It is designed to attract, rather than prohibit, urban development within the boundary implemented with the urban service boundary, in most cases for a given period
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