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Equity is a basic need of human society and efficiency is the objective need of social development. Urban planning is one of the important functions of the government, while distribution equity and economic efficiency are the two important problems that the government must consider. In this chapter, we discuss, along with the speeding up of urbanization, how to balance the relationship between equity and efficiency in urban planning to achieve the sustainable development of cities. First, this chapter elaborates on the relationship between equity and efficiency in economics and their relationship of the unity of opposites. From the theoretical analysis, we point out that urban planning should give balanced consideration to equity and efficiency, while China currently still follows the principle of “prioritizing efficiency by considering equity,” which conforms to its basic national conditions. In the new situations, however, this principle cannot meet the needs of development, in that it ignores the values and the humanistic care. In order to keep pace with the new situations and to achieve sustainable development, it is worth to give more in-depth consideration on the balance of equity and efficiency in the future of urban planning.
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Tang, Y., Zhang, R. (2017). The Balance Between Equity and Efficiency in Urban Planning. In: Jiang, Q., Qian, L., Ding, M. (eds) Fair Development in China. Perspectives on Sustainable Growth. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43663-0_11
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