#12433. Urban vacant land in rapidly urbanized areas: Status, micro-level drivers, and implications

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Abstract:
The existence of vacant land is a worldwide phenomenon. However, few studies focus on the micro-level drivers that cause land to remain vacant in small towns. We determined the ordered utilization status of vacant land in N County of Zhejiang Province, China, via visual inspection of high-resolution images, and identified the micro-level drivers of continued land vacancy using ordinal logistic regression. The results show that 57% of the newly supplied land, converted from agricultural land to urban land, was still unutilized or underutilized. Micro-level drivers, including elevation, distance to the industrial park, number of urban land units within the neighborhood, and the vacant years, positively affected the utilization rate of urban land. In contrast, the slope, distance to water, and distance to built-up areas had a negative effect. To address the continuing prevalence of vacant land, N County should prioritize the micro-level drivers of positive land use and strengthen post-land-supply supervision.
Keywords:
micro-level drivers; newly supplied land; ordinal logistic regression; Vacant land

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