ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the findings from the case study and explores the policy implications to achieve the goals of sustainable and integrated urban–rural development in the peri-urban areas as seen from the perspectives of economic development, spatial change, and governance change. The shift from rural fragmentation to urban–rural integrity in land-use patterns has been a major trend in peri-urban areas. Integrated urban–rural planning can be an effective tool to coordinate the overall regional space coordination. In China, Chengdu municipality provides a successful example of urban–rural coordinated planning and development. Through progressively making policy for transferring rural construction land-use rights, Chengdu set up a preliminary urban–rural integrated land market. In the face of the opportunities of economic restructuring and the land rent differential under the dualistic system of urban–rural land management, some villages gradually entered the process of urbanization. With a series of social and environmental problems caused by peri-urbanization, adjusting the urbanization strategy has been on the agenda.
