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作者

Yan Yan;Tao Liu;Ningcheng Wang;Shenjun Yao

来源

CITIES,Vol.126,Issue1,Article 103699

语言

英文

关键字

Urban sprawl;Fiscal stress;Suburbanization;Spatial heterogeneity;Chinese cities

作者单位

College of Urban Economics and Public Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China;College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;Center for Urban Future Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;Key Laboratory of Territorial Spatial Planning and Development-Protection (Ministry of Natural Resources), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;College of Urban Economics and Public Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070, China;College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;Center for Urban Future Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China;Key Laboratory of Territorial Spatial Planning and Development-Protection (Ministry of Natural Resources), Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

摘要

Sprawl not only has a direct negative impact on the health of urban society and ecology but may also damage the financial foundation of urban development. Using city-level panel data from 2002 to 2017, this paper takes rapidly urbanizing China as a case study to discuss the impact of urban sprawl on the fiscal stress of local governments and the underlying mechanism. Results show that, on the whole, urban sprawl is significantly and positively associated with fiscal stress of local governments, which is supported by multiple robustness analysis. By distinguishing two modes of sprawl, residential sprawl is found to significantly increase urban fiscal stress, whereas the impact of industrial sprawl is not significant. Further mechanism analysis indicates that the former is mainly due to the fact that residential sprawl driven by real estate development in the suburb cannot generate continuous fiscal revenue, while the latter can achieve a revenue-expenditure balance for the tax base expansion effect of suburban industrial development. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the land-centered development strategy of promoting population agglomeration and industrial expansion through excessive supply of cheap suburban land often fails to achieve the desired results but instead increases fiscal stress in small and medium-sized cities and less-developed regions.