The Evolution of the Urban Residential Space Structure and Driving Forces in the Megacity—A Case Study of Shenyang City

He Sun,He Liu,Shenzhen Tian,Yingying Guan,Xueming Li

doi:10.3390/land10101081

Abstract

For megacities, they are in a period of transformation from extensive development to smart growth. Recognizing new characteristics and new changes of the residential space in megacities under the backdrop of new development has great practical significance for realizing the sustainable development of the city. As the only megacity in Northeast China, Shenyang was selected to be the research object, with 1989–2018 as the research period. The research comprehensively used multiple spatial representation methods and statistical methods to study the residential space pattern and driving factors in Shenyang City. The results showed that: (1) Residential space expansion can be divided into four stages: slow development, rapid expansion, speedy expansion, and stable extension. (2) The residential space structure presented a spatial evolution characteristic of overall expansion, forming multiple secondary core density centers. The east-west direction had a larger extension range than the northeast-southwest direction. There was an axisymmetric zonal distribution on both sides of the Hun River. (3) The agglomeration of different residential forms was obvious, and the spatial heterogeneity was increasingly stronger. (4) Urban planning measures and economic strength were the main driving forces of residential space expansion.

Highlights

As an important aspect of improving people’s livelihood, housing has long attracted widespread attention from the country and the wider society [1,2]
According to the trend and characteristics, with an annual increase of 50 residences and 100 residences as a cut-off point, residential space expansion in Shenyang was divided into four stages: (1) slow development (1989–1994), (2) rapid expansion (1995–2003), (3)
We found that economic development and urban planning are the primary driving forces for the intensity of residential space expansion

Summary

Introduction

As an important aspect of improving people’s livelihood, housing has long attracted widespread attention from the country and the wider society [1,2]. Since China’s reform and opening up, urbanization and industrialization have developed rapidly, and the scale and spatial structure of cities has expanded significantly [3,4]. Many megacities have been born, and the expansion structure and form of residential space are constantly changing [5,6]. With the increase in urban land saturation, some cities have encountered unsustainable development problems such as disorderly expansion, low landuse efficiency, and so on [7]. Urban residential space as people’s living communication activities carrier is an important part of urban space

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