Study on Urban Expansion Patterns Based on the Driving Force Analysis

Abstract:

Since 1990s, urban land in China has increased rapidly, and the annual construction land quota of the city has been broken through constantly, so city size is always surmounting the scale limit of master plan. In order to understand and guide the healthy development of city scientifically, the paper investigates large amount of Chinese and western urban expansion phenomenon in the past centuries, and sums up 5 expansion patterns according to the driving forces. They are urban expansions driven by industrialization, by social psychology, by high concentration of urbanization, by impeded urbanization and national policy and by globalization, which are the main types of the urban expansion in modern society.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 518-523)
• Pages: 6038-6041
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.518-523.6038
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Cong Xia Zhao, Peng Guang Zhou
• Keywords: Driving Force, Urban Expansion, Urban Expansion Pattern

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