The Landscape Future of the Coal-Mine Region -Taking Taiyuan as an Example

Abstract

This paper aims to study on the landscape future of a large number of coal-mines distributed around the border of resource-based cities in China, which have been abandoned or semi-abandoned, lacking of features, with scattered settlements separated by the industry. Taking the coal-mine region around the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi province as an example, seeing from the perspective of urban economics, landscape ecology and sociological, finding landscape transformation ways to solve the threat of industrial collapse, the suffering from social problems, the seriously polluted waste, the loss of social cultural issues and other series of problems in the region, so as to get economic recovery, land reclamation, and ecological restoration. Special mention is also given in these urbanized areas on how to increase employment, how to establish urban features and how to make a pleasant community