The New Data of Yichun, a Shrinking City in North‑East China

Type & Source

An open data package developed to support research on small and shrinking cities in China, with a focus on Yichun, a city in Northeast China experiencing significant population decline. This initiative emerged from BCL’s bibliometric analysis that highlighted the underrepresentation of small cities in Chinese urban studies.

Format

ESRI ArcGIS 10.x File Geodatabase.

Contributors

Ying Long, Dong Li (additional contributors forthcoming).

Purpose

This dataset aims to promote more academic attention to China’s smaller urban centers and support data-driven planning and policy improvements in under-studied cities like Yichun.

Citation

Long, Y., & Wu, K. (2016). Shrinking cities in a rapidly urbanizing China. Environment and Planning A, 48, 220–222. Liu, X., Song, Y., Wu, K., Wang, J., Li, D., & Long, Y. (2015). Understanding urban China with open data. Cities, 47, 53–61. Li, D., & Long, Y. (2015). A crowd-sourced data based analytical framework for urban planning. China City Planning Review, 24, 49–57.