Construction Of Small Towns Research Articles

Study on the Econometric Model for Cost of Regional Eco-Urbanization of Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone

Based on the analysis of the cost of urbanization, this paper constructs the econometric model for broad and narrow sense economic cost of regional eco-urbanization, and carries out case study on urban system of Poyang Lake Eco-economic Zone. The results indicate that we should highlight the construction of small towns, and take a development road of new urbanization of balance development of large, medium-sized and small cities and towns. The Econometric model for cost of regional eco-urbanization provides a new quantitative and practical method for the study of urbanization, and this paper provides a practical way for urbanization development of undeveloped areas.

A study on the information entropy and fractal dimension of land use structure and form in Shanghai

Land use change is an important component of global environmental change, and a representation of the impact of human activities on physical environment. Study on regional and urban land use change is the newest trend now. This paper studied land use structure and form changes of the central area in Shanghai from 1947 to 1996 and revealed all the driving factors leading to such changes based on the system ideas and the fractal theories. The paper calculated and compared the information entropy and equilibrium degree of land use structure on different condition. The results showed that the information entropy and equilibrium degree of land use structure were increasing gradually based on study area, but were decreasing from 1947 to 1958 and start to increase since 1958 based on urbanized area. The differences in areas of each land use type are reducing and the land use structures are approaching to equilibrium state in Shanghai. In recent 50 years, the boundary dimensions of urban industrial area, farmland, village small town construction area and reserved land for construction purpose have an ascending trend, their boundary forms are even more complicated, but residential area and other urban landscapes change little. The radius dimensions of residential area, industrial area, other urban landscape and village small town construction area were increasing gradually, those of agricultural area and reserved land for construction purpose had an ascending trend before 1979 and started to descend since 1979. In recent 50 years, all the land use types have been expanding from city center to peripheries with different speeds and degrees.The radius dimension of farmland is maximal and that of residential area is minimal, which forms an annular spatial pattern from residential area to industrial area and to agricultural area according to distance away from city center. All these spatial-temporal feature changes are impacted by the local environment, traffic condition, economic development and government conduct, while economic development and government conduct are the most important driving factors leading to urban form changes.

A study on land system innovations in the construction of small towns in China

The economic development in China and the rising of the living standard need to speed up the urbanisation. The development of small towns is an important way to Chinese urbanisation. Land use plays a very important role in the development of small towns. However there are many problems in the development of small towns, esp. in land use. The paper first discusses the land problems in the development of small towns. Such as much cultivated land lies idle, under-utilization and waste of land, increasing illegal use of land, unstable contractual relationship for land use. The relationship between the development of small towns and land use is also studied. Then the guidelines for the land system innovations of small towns are put forward. Namely the sustainability of social and economic development, the balance between land reservation and land utilization, the provision of service to village, agriculture and farmer, the management of land resource and land assets, the parsimonious and legal use of land. The basic framework of land system innovations of small towns is put forward finally. It include the land replacement policy for small towns and the permanent tenancy of farmland, the overall plan for land uses and other plans in harmony, the establishment of a flexible system of land supplies, using land with payments, the transfer of agricultural land and refining the land law related to the construction of small towns.