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Architecture and Urbanism Non-equilibrium territorial space use in PRD

the rest of the cities remain below 5 m³/sqm. Foshan has scale and urban economic performance in the Pearl River
the lowest availability at just 0.966 m³/sqm. Delta urban agglomeration is presented in Table 9.
Table 8 presents the results of the land supply capacity Figures 1‑3 illustrate the territorial space development
after standardizing the data. The analysis of the standardized scale, urban economic benefit, and coupling coordination
land supply capacity index shows that Jiangmen, Zhaoqing, degree in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration for
and Huizhou are in the top tier, with strong land supply 2019. The analysis shows that the overall level of coupling
capacity, clearly differentiating them from the remaining coordination in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration
cities. The lowest land supply capacities are observed in is relatively high, with all cities achieving a coordinated
Shenzhen and Dongguan. Overall, there is a noticeable development status. The average coupling degree is 0.683,
difference in land supply capacity across the cities within which corresponds to a primary level of coordinated
the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration. development. The disparity between the highest and lowest
coupling degrees is relatively small, with Guangzhou having
4.4. Evaluation of the coupling degree between the highest (0.705) and Zhaoqing the lowest (0.607), a
territorial space development scale and urban difference of only 0.098. Specifically, among the nine cities,
economic benefit five are classified as having medium-level coordinated

Using the selected coupling coordination degree model, development, while the remaining four cities are at the
the relationship between territorial space development primary coordination level. None of the cities reached
excellent or good coordination levels. This result suggests that,
Table 7. Analysis of per capita arable land and water security while the economic benefits from land development in the
in the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration are generally high, no
city demonstrates outstanding performance. The differences
City Arable land area per Amount of water resources in economic benefits among the cities are minimal, indicating
capita (m /person) available per unit of land area
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(m /sqm) a relatively uniform development across the region.
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Guangzhou 51.33 1.006 4.5. Analysis of land development balance
Shenzhen 2.67 1.134
Table 10 presents the results of land development in the
Zhuhai 86.00 1.162 Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration based on the
Foshan 44.00 0.966 selected land development imbalance index model.
Jiangmen 336.00 8.936
Figure 4 illustrates the land development imbalance
Zhaoqing 353.33 4.991 index of the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration in
Huizhou 284.00 4.654 2019. The land development imbalance index is the ratio of
Dongguan 15.33 0.971 the scale of land development to the land supply capacity,
Zhongshan 34.00 1.295 reflecting the degree of imbalance between land use and
supply. A ratio closer to 1 indicates a more balanced state.
Values below 1 signify underdevelopment, whereas values
Table 8. Analysis of land supply capacity of the Pearl River >1 indicate overdevelopment. Regarding the balance of
Delta urban agglomeration
land development, the entire Pearl River Delta urban
City Standardization Standardization Land supply agglomeration exhibits significant imbalances. Specifically,
of arable land of water resources capacity Shenzhen is in a state of severe overdevelopment.
area per capita available per unit Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan, Dongguan, and Zhongshan
of land area also display overdevelopment, with varying degrees of
Guangzhou 0.23 0.10 0.159 imbalance. On the other hand, Zhaoqing is underdeveloped,
Shenzhen 0.10 0.12 0.109 and both Jiangmen and Huizhou are experiencing severe
Zhuhai 0.31 0.12 0.207 underdevelopment. These findings indicate that the overall
Foshan 0.21 0.10 0.149 land development balance in the Pearl River Delta urban
Jiangmen 0.96 1.00 0.978 agglomeration is poor, with extreme polarization between
Zhaoqing 1.00 0.56 0.761 overdeveloped and underdeveloped cities.
Huizhou 0.82 0.52 0.660 5. Discussion
Dongguan 0.13 0.10 0.116 Based on the findings, this section discusses the
Zhongshan 0.18 0.14 0.158 implications of the results in relation to territorial space

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