With the acceleration of China’s regional integrated development,some functions of large cities have been decentralized to the peripheral areas,resulting in the increasing phenomenon of commuting to and from school o...With the acceleration of China’s regional integrated development,some functions of large cities have been decentralized to the peripheral areas,resulting in the increasing phenomenon of commuting to and from school or work across administrative regions.As a spatial unit of various factors flowing across regions,the metropolitan area has gradually become a significant carrier in the background of high-quality urbanization development.However,due to existing policy limitation,it has been hard to avoid administrative barriers in metropolitan area development.To fill the gap in the traditional policy system,regional spatial governance is being widely used in practice at various levels.Therefore,from the perspective of spatial governance,this paper explores a new approach to the governance of metropolitan areas with Chinese characteristics based on the analysis of the connotation evolution of metropolitan areas and the international experience of metropolitan development and governance.By taking several metropolitan areas in Jiangsu Province as examples,this paper explains that the key to metropolitan governance is to treat a metropolitan area as"policy area"and to construct a spatial governance system suitable to regional integrated development,through the combination of spatial planning and public policy,so as to propel urban development towards regional coordination.展开更多
文摘With the acceleration of China’s regional integrated development,some functions of large cities have been decentralized to the peripheral areas,resulting in the increasing phenomenon of commuting to and from school or work across administrative regions.As a spatial unit of various factors flowing across regions,the metropolitan area has gradually become a significant carrier in the background of high-quality urbanization development.However,due to existing policy limitation,it has been hard to avoid administrative barriers in metropolitan area development.To fill the gap in the traditional policy system,regional spatial governance is being widely used in practice at various levels.Therefore,from the perspective of spatial governance,this paper explores a new approach to the governance of metropolitan areas with Chinese characteristics based on the analysis of the connotation evolution of metropolitan areas and the international experience of metropolitan development and governance.By taking several metropolitan areas in Jiangsu Province as examples,this paper explains that the key to metropolitan governance is to treat a metropolitan area as"policy area"and to construct a spatial governance system suitable to regional integrated development,through the combination of spatial planning and public policy,so as to propel urban development towards regional coordination.
