An Institutional Analysis on China's “Urban Disease”

This paper aims to clarify the institutional causes of China’s"urban disease"and propose solutions to counter it.The institutional causes summarized in the paper include the fiscal and taxation system,land system,planning system,the central-local relations,and so forth.By influencing the behavior of municipal governments,these factors not only produce excessive incentives for cities to pursue urban development,but also result in"urban disease"in Chinese cities.Based on such an analysis,this paper puts forward some thoughts and suggestions on gradual reforms in the future to help mitigate China’s"urban disease."

Urban Planning Analysis Based on the Concept of Smart Ecology

With the progress and development of economic society,the defects in traditional urbanplanning have gradually become prominent,resulting in more and more serious urban diseases.Variousproblems in urban construction have produced a series of adverse effects on urban development.Facedwith such situations,major cities actively explore smart and ecological construction,and take ecology as theguide to promote sustainable development on the concept of smart ecology under the background of bigdata information age.Based on this,relevant strategies of smart eco-city planning in urban planning anddesign are analyzed,and the planning and design ideas under smart ecological concept are discussed fromthe aspects of living environment,green transportation and ecological governance,hoping that theoreticaldiscussion will be helpful to the design practice.

City Health Examination in China:A Methodology and Empirical Study

National urban planning,construction,and management levels have undergone qualitative changes in China since 2000.Nonetheless,problems caused by rapid urbanization are becoming increasingly prominent.The concept of the city health examination appears to tackle these problems and is being gradually implemented,starting from the implementation of a national strategy and leading to the concrete practice of high-quality urban development.This paper elaborates on the basic philosophy and theory of the city health examination,briefly explains indicator selection and aims,and comprehensively illustrates examination methods.It then describes the empirical research that operationalized the dataset collected from a satisfaction survey administered during the 2020 city health examination.It aims to provide a reference for the standardization,specialization,analysis,and application of the results of the city health examination in China;this may help promote a smooth elimination of‘urban diseases’and allow for the development of high-quality livable cities.This research shows that city residents are generally more satisfied with the landscape features,ecological livability,and security resilience;it also shows that residents are generally more dissatisfied with traffic issues.Residents with different characteristics showed different satisfaction levels toward different indicators.Residents were also shown to be more sensitive to innovation vitality,ecological livability,and health and comfort in considering whether to stay in their current city.