Hosted by the Program on Chinese Cities （PCC）
1/23/2025 3:00 PM-4:00 PM EST
Presenter: Yiping Lyu
PhD, majoring in Urban Planning, Tongji University
Visiting scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Supervisor: Prof. Yan Song
Abstract:
Although regulatory planning in China and zoning by-law in the US are similar in many technical aspects, they play completely different roles in the allocation of land development rights. This difference has a direct impact on the governance logic and institutional effectiveness. In view of the symbiotic relationship between land development rights and spatial planning powers, placing regulatory planning and zonning in the research perspective of land development rights can better identify the causes of institutional differences.
Looking at the international experience trend, the land market and planning control are the common basis for the establishment of the land development rights system. The emergence of land development rights is divided into two processes: limitation under the regulation of spatial planning powers and determination under the derivation of land ownership. By tracing the formation and development of regulatory planning in China and zoning by-law in the US, it is found that the timing and sequence of the emergence of land markets and planning controls in the two countries are the key factors affecting the governance logic of the system, resulting in significant differences in the characteristics of institutional goals, nature, effectiveness, etc. The system will undergo gradual changes with the macro environment and social consensus. In the context of the current changes in the spatial planning system in China, it is extremely necessary to deeply understand the different property rights relationship logic of the two systems. The institutional design of detailed planning in the future needs to be adjusted and optimized based on the country’s governance system.