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The urban problems in the evolution of industrial land in large cities: A case study of Xi’an City
Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition) 2024, 54(4): 589-600
Published: 25 August 2024
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The scale and layout of industrial land in large cities have changed dramatically in the process of Chinese economic transformation since the Reform and Opening up, which has profoundly influenced the spatial pattern of cities. Taking Xi’an as an example, this study adopts a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods based on multi-source data and it is found that the area of industrial land in Xi’an showed a trend of continuous growth followed by rapid decrease from 1974 to 2019, and the spatial layout changes have significant characteristics of suburbanization and de-industrialization in urban centers in the process of park-oriented spatial aggregation. The layout pattern has changed from "group layout+fan-shaped expansion" in the early stage of Reform and Opening up to "circle expansion+axial expansion+jumping agglomeration" in the increment planning period to "park-oriented spatial aggregation in the suburbs" in the inventory planning period. The main driving forces for the evolution of industrial land layout are helping enterprises to relieve their difficulties, urban growth, improvement of living and housing conditions, and economic value of land. The suburbanization and the de-industrialization in urban centers have caused many urban problems such as separation of jobs and housing, traffic congestion, which are not conducive to the healthy and sustainable development of cities.

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Characteristics of passenger flow disturbance and resilient response mechanism in high-speed railway station area: Case study of Xi’an North Station
Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition) 2024, 54(4): 569-578
Published: 25 August 2024
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The increase of urban vitality is accompanied by increasingly prominent man-made risks, and cities need to respond in a multi-dimensional resilience. The high-speed railway station area is the key space of passenger flow disturbance, but research on the disturbance characteristics and resilience response of high-speed railway station areas needs to be strengthened. Taking Xi’an North Railway Station as the research object, this paper used passenger flow disturbance index, connectivity diversity index and participatory resilience response appraisal method to analyze passenger flow disturbance characteristics resilience response mechanism and planning strategies. The results show the passenger flow disturbances have the characteristics of periodicity and spatial heterogeneity. The resilience response of high-speed railway station areas is the result of factors such as inaccurate development positioning, inefficient spatial utilization, imbalance in connectivity diversity, division of governance rights and responsibilities, and delayed mechanism response. It is suggested that the response efficiency should be improved from the aspects of paying attention to the positioning of traffic function, improving the layout and connecting space of station area, and building an efficient governance system, so as to improve the resilience of high-speed railway station area.

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