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Eco-City Problems: Industry–City–Ecology, Urbanization Development Assessment in Resource-Exhausted Cities

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  • Xin Li

    (School of Tourism and Geography Science, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
    Advanced Institute of Culture & Tourism, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
    These authors contributed to the work equally and should be regarded as co-first authors.)

  • Xinyu Zhuang

    (College of Quality & Standardization, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
    These authors contributed to the work equally and should be regarded as co-first authors.)

Abstract

Not one single event affected as much of the world as the present period of warming is now doing. Due to the global energy crisis, climate warming and other issues, low-carbon eco-cities have become the general trend. In the context of this study, we aim to solve problems of resource-exhausted cities, which are in urgent need for green transformation. The selection of research objects is mostly based on representative regions (eastern, middle. and western regions) in China, which will lead to significant regional characteristics in eco-city planning. On the basis of the index selection, construction of the evaluation index system and calculation on the coordinated development degree of industrial structure and urbanization, we explore the coordination relationship between industrial transformation and urbanization level with the time span of three-time nodes (2005, 2010, 2015), which were also the speed-up of industrialization and urbanization in China. Results indicate that the transformation and upgrading of the current regional industrial structure is lagging behind, and the internal power of industrial upgrading is insufficient, which limits the ecological development of resource-exhausted cities. It can also be found that the coordinated development index of urbanization and industrial structure is too low. The main implications of this study state that resource-exhausted cities are still in the state of being on the verge of imbalance and still have a wide development space based on the division standard. Furthermore, compared to the rationalization industrial structure, this study indicates the contributive rate of industrial structure supererogation to the overall level of urbanization is bigger. Countermeasures about the urban environment from the ecology stratification plane and how the cities achieve the urban form of sustainable development as a complex organism are also proposed. Scientific analysis and discussion on resource-cities by studying and solving related problems on the eco-city’s construction has vital significance to urbanization and sustainable development, which can reflect the relationship between industry, city, and ecology.

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  • Xin Li & Xinyu Zhuang, 2022. "Eco-City Problems: Industry–City–Ecology, Urbanization Development Assessment in Resource-Exhausted Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-22, December.
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