Abstract
Fast urbanization is bound to follow the increasing demand of nonagricultural land and leads to the amount of cultivated land to fall sharply, which aggravates the disruption of resources and the environment. This disruption, in turn, will hinder the sustainable promotion of urbanization. Therefore, rational or smart growth Fulton et al. 2003, 2001 is essential for sustainable urban development. However, both theory and practice, there are some mistaken beliefs about the relationship between urbanization and land-use policy, such as 1 the upsurge of real estate prices is bound to bring better utilization of real estate resources; 2 suburbanization will lead inevitably to tremendous waste of land resources; and 3 the multicenter urban development model will effectively reduce the price of real estate. These perspectives will affect rational urban growth and the formulation of land-use policy.
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