Coordinated urban-rural development and the transition of planning management — A case study of Chengdu, China

The coordinated urban-rural development is to include rural development into the overall framework of regional development. It is contended that the evolving relation between human and natural environment and the complex adjustment of urban-rural benefits require transition of the existing Chinese planning management and policy system urgently, by an intensive case study in Chengdu. By examining the coordinated urban-rural planning transition in Chengdu, this paper developed an analytical framework for planning management transition and discussed the institutional transition, planning system transition, planning mechanism transition and planning technics transition of coordinated urban-rural planning management in China.