Sustainable Urban Development and Land use Changes in Shanghai,Suzhou and Huzhou,China
Rapid Urban expansion in China has led to the occupation and development of large amounts of arable land. This has become one of the main constraints for achieving sustainable urban development in China. To explore the potential and challenges of sustainable urban development, we analyzed land use changes during 1990-2000 through case studies in Shanghai, Suzhou and Huzhou. The selection of these cities was based on population scale, resources use, economic development and industrial structure. We then identified the driving forces that led to these changes based on the social and economic data and indices, and showed the relationship between urban sustainable development and the land use changes. It was found that the three cities had different spatial-temporal changes in the land use, and the urban population,urbanization, economic development, land policy and industrial structure were the factors that exerted the strongest influence on the land use changes in that period.insights we obtained from the case study shall provide important perspectives for the future development of sound and sustainable urban areas in Chinese cities.
land use change development zone land use policy urbanization urban sustainabUity industrial structure
Haiyan Zhang Keishiro Hara Michinori Uwasu Helmut Yabar
Corresponding author.2-1 Yamada-oka,Suita,Osaka 565-0871,Japan Research Institute for Sustainability Science,Osaka University
国际会议
北京
英文
298-302
2008-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）