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Spatial and Temporal Pattern of Urban Smart Development in China and Its Driving Mechanism

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Smart urban development is an inevitable choice, and is essential to overall strength improvement. It is important to explore an urban smart development path which unites smart growth with driving shrinkage perfectly in forming scientific and sustainable development concept and responding to new normal strategic opportunities. Based on statistic data of 294 prefecture-level cities and above in China from 2000 to 2015, we analyzed spatial and temporal evolution of urban smart development in China by constructing a dynamic fitting model of urban land expansion, population growth, and economic development as well as the coefficient of variation of urban smart development (CVSD). Further efforts were then made to consider differential distribution regularity of urban smart development so as to understand the driving mechanisms of heterogeneous classification of urban smart development in China from different scales and scale variation. Our results indicate that: 1) the disordered growth tendency of urban cities in China is overall well controlled in the middle, and late research and it mainly presented a doublet coexistence of shrinkage disordered cities and smart developing cities. It is particularly obvious that Northeast China and East China have regarded shrinkage disordered cities and smart developing cities as main development tendency separately. 2) Areas with basic stability and relative variation were relatively dispersed across the time period, but the proportion was far beyond areas with significant variation. It demonstrates a relative equilibrium spatial and temporal differential evolution pattern of prefecture-level cities and above in China, except for Tongling, Lanzhou and Chaoyang. 3) prefecture-level cities and above in China are mostly characterized by shrinkage disordered and smart development classification under the background of different scale and scale variation from 2000–2015; however, the spatial resonance relation is not obvious. 4) There are many interaction factors forming an important driving mechanism in developing the spatial and temporal pattern of urban smart development in China, including natural geographical factors, industrial structure adjustment, human capital radiation, regional traffic accessibility, and government decision-making intervention.

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Foundation item: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41101548), Philosophy and Social Science Research Program of Heilongjiang Province in 2016 (No. 16JBL01), Key Research Projects of Economic and Social Development in Heilongjiang Province (No. JD2016014), Human Civilization and Social Science Supportive Program for Excellent Young Scholars of Harbin Normal University (No. SYQ2014-06)

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Chen, X., Wei, L. & Zhang, H. Spatial and Temporal Pattern of Urban Smart Development in China and Its Driving Mechanism. Chin. Geogr. Sci. 28, 584–599 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-018-0976-0

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