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Spatio-temporal Patterns and Driving Forces of Urban Land Expansion in China during the Economic Reform Era
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Liu, Jiyuan Zhan, Jinyan Deng, Xiangzheng |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Abstract Along with its economic reform, China has experienced a rapid urbanization. This study mapped urban land expansion in China using high-resolution Landsat Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper data of 1989/1990, 1995/1996 and 1999/2000 and analyzed its expansion modes and the driving forces underlying this process during 1990–2000. Our results show that China's urban land increased by 817 thousand hectares, of which 80.8% occurred during 1990–1995 and 19.2% during 1995–2000. It was also found that China's urban expansion had high spatial and temporal differences, such as four expansion modes, concentric, leapfrog, linear and multi-nuclei, and their combinations coexisted and expanded urban land area in the second 5 y was much less than that of the first 5 y. Case studies of the 13 mega cities showed that urban expansion had been largely driven by demographic change, economic growth, and changes in land use policies and regulations. |
| Starting Page | 450 |
| Ending Page | 455 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1579/0044-7447-34.6.450 |
| PubMed reference number | 16201216 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 34 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://sourcedb.cas.cn/sourcedb_igsnrr_cas/zw/lw/200906/P020090625735044098009.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=15220FC2FA71C9CCFAB29A9A3C7509E3?doi=10.1.1.452.2479&rep=rep1&type=pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447-34.6.450 |
| Journal | Ambio |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
