TY - JOUR
T1 - Does functional specialization affect collaborative development? Evidence from four Chinese metropolitan areas
AU - Zhang, Pengfei
AU - Liu, Zhiwei
AU - Liu, Xuemin
AU - Hao, Yu
AU - Wang, Yuhai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - The layout of urban spatial functions may play an important role in sustainable regional development. Given the rapid development of urbanization in China, this study attempts to analyze how functional specialization affects coordinated regional development. To quantitatively measure the degree of coordinated development within different regions, the coordinated degree index is used to calculate the degree of coordinated development of four Chinese metropolitan areas from 2008 to 2019. The panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model is employed to empirically test the impact of urban functional specialization on coordinated regional development. The results indicate that high market activity is conducive to the formation of functional specialization synergy in space, and the level of social productivity directly affects the functional specialization and the level of synergy within a region. With the continuous strengthening of the implementation of local government policies, the functional specialization and synergy in metropolitan areas have gradually strengthened. However, the promotion effects and the expression of functional specialization, the coordinated development of government actions, and spatial functions differ across metropolitan areas in China.
AB - The layout of urban spatial functions may play an important role in sustainable regional development. Given the rapid development of urbanization in China, this study attempts to analyze how functional specialization affects coordinated regional development. To quantitatively measure the degree of coordinated development within different regions, the coordinated degree index is used to calculate the degree of coordinated development of four Chinese metropolitan areas from 2008 to 2019. The panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model is employed to empirically test the impact of urban functional specialization on coordinated regional development. The results indicate that high market activity is conducive to the formation of functional specialization synergy in space, and the level of social productivity directly affects the functional specialization and the level of synergy within a region. With the continuous strengthening of the implementation of local government policies, the functional specialization and synergy in metropolitan areas have gradually strengthened. However, the promotion effects and the expression of functional specialization, the coordinated development of government actions, and spatial functions differ across metropolitan areas in China.
KW - China
KW - Coordination degree
KW - Functional specialization
KW - Metropolitan area
KW - PVAR model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103401117&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-021-13568-4
DO - 10.1007/s11356-021-13568-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 33786769
AN - SCOPUS:85103401117
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 28
SP - 41851
EP - 41868
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
IS - 31
ER -
