Preliminary Research on Planning of Decentralizing Ancient Towns in Small-Scale Famous Historic and Cultural Cities with a Case Study of Tingchow County, Fujian Province

The urban planning industry has always been concerned about conserving and developing historic cities in a sustainable and balanced way. However, unreasonable planning and accumulative effects brought by rapid urbanization prevent the conservation of small-scale famous historic and cultural cities. Taking Tingchow county as an example, this paper focused on sustainable development and the Historic Urban Landscape Approach, and determined the urban functions and specific tasks of various planning of its ancient town with the help of public opinions. This paper mainly aimed at providing guidance on urban decentralization from two perspectives. Firstly, it compared the types of land use and its ratio among famous cities of similar scales, and results showed that it is advisable to reduce three-class residential land use and unnecessary administrative functions. Secondly, it estimated the moderate resident population in different degrees of development, and calculated the upper limit of resource space bearing capacity (REBC) of scenic spots under the guidance of sustainable tourism. Results showed that it is recommended to decentralize and resettle 20%~30% of the resident population, and to control the tourist population below 12,000 per day. As the preliminary work of planning, this paper focused on the scientific planning and availability of decentralization, and reflected an expectation for the mode of public participation and quantitative planning.

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ASSESSING THE CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT IN MALAYSIA: CASE STUDY OF MRT PUTRAJAYA LINE

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v19i15.934 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (15) ◽

Author(s):

Nuranisa Huda Ramlan ◽

Mariana Mohamed Osman ◽

Noor Suzilawati Rabe ◽

Ainina Azizan ◽

Nurul Ardila Azmi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Transit Oriented Development ◽

Current Implementation ◽

Mixed Use ◽

Residential Land Use ◽

Significant Performance ◽

Klang Valley ◽

Development Concept ◽

The Ideal

In the past years, the concept of Transit-Oriented Development has been adopted in cities and countries including Malaysia and Singapore. The integration of land use and public transport stations through Transit Oriented Development (TOD) as part of urban and cities strategy is highly acclaimed in promoting sustainable development concept in cities development. To understand the performance of TODs implementation in Klang Valley, this study has selected eleven stations in of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Putrajaya Line as case studies. This paper aims to evaluate the current implementation of TODs in Malaysia, benchmarked against the TOD land use composition and percentage from Singapore’s model. The findings show that Raja Uda, Ampang Park and Persiaran KLCC stations show significant performance. However, Bandar Malaysia North station displayed poor result with the lowest percentage of residential and commercial components. All stations did not achieve the ideal TOD value for residential land use and eight out of eleven stations recorded higher than the ideal TOD value for roads. However, highest number of stations achieved the ideal TOD value for mixed-use and commercial land uses. These results would help policymakers to improve the current implementation of TODs in Malaysia.

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A STRATEGY FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT RESIDENTIAL LAND USE: CITY OF LETHBRIDGE CASE STUDY

Energy Developments: New Forms, Renewables, Conservation ◽

10.1016/b978-0-08-025407-4.50144-7 ◽

1984 ◽

pp. 809-814 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ralf Southwell ◽

Leland Lange

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Energy Efficient ◽

Residential Land ◽

Residential Land Use

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Agroforestry as a model of sustainable land use of small-scale private forest: a case study in Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management ◽

10.1504/ijbcrm.2020.108506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2/3) ◽

pp. 194

Author(s):

Endang Hernawan ◽

Mia Rosmiati ◽

Tien Lastini ◽

N.A. Sofiatin ◽

Angga Dwiartama ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Small Scale ◽

Private Forest ◽

West Java

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Agroforestry as a model of sustainable land use of small-scale private forest: a case study in Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia

International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management ◽

10.1504/ijbcrm.2020.10030390 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2/3) ◽

pp. 194

Author(s):

Heri Rahman ◽

Angga Dwiartama ◽

N.A. Sofiatin ◽

Tien Lastini ◽

Mia Rosmiati ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Small Scale ◽

Private Forest ◽

West Java

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Scenario Analysis on Climate Change Impacts of Urban Land Expansion under Different Urbanization Patterns: A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan

Advances in Meteorology ◽

10.1155/2013/293636 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Xinli Ke ◽

Feng Wu ◽

Caixue Ma

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Land Use ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Regional Climate ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Urban Land Expansion ◽

The Impact

Urban land expansion plays an important role in climate change. It is significant to select a reasonable urban expansion pattern to mitigate the impact of urban land expansion on the regional climate in the rapid urbanization process. In this paper, taking Wuhan metropolitan as the case study area, and three urbanization patterns scenarios are designed to simulate spatial patterns of urban land expansion in the future using the Partitioned and Asynchronous Cellular Automata Model. Then, simulation results of land use are adjusted and inputted into WRF (Weather Research and Forecast) model to simulate regional climate change. The results show that: (1) warming effect is strongest under centralized urbanization while it is on the opposite under decentralized scenario; (2) the warming effect is stronger and wider in centralized urbanization scenario than in decentralized urbanization scenario; (3) the impact trends of urban land use expansion on precipitation are basically the same under different scenarios; (4) and spatial distribution of rainfall was more concentrated under centralized urbanization scenario, and there is a rainfall center of wider scope, greater intensity. Accordingly, it can be concluded that decentralized urbanization is a reasonable urbanization pattern to mitigate climate change in rapid urbanization period.

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Landscape Pattern Dynamics and Landscape Sustainability in Shenzhen City

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.209-211.337 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 209-211 ◽

pp. 337-340

Author(s):

Bin Xun ◽

De Yong Yu ◽

Yu Peng Liu

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Landscape Pattern ◽

Agricultural Landscape ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Landscape Dynamics ◽

Landscape Sustainability ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Pattern Dynamics ◽

Urbanization In China ◽

Shape Complexity

urbanization, land use, landscape pattern, landscape sustainability, Shenzhen Abstract. Urbanization has been a universal and irresistible trend across the world. Quantifying urban landscape pattern changes can provide detailed information to understand the urbanization process and to operationalize landscape sustainability. Combining the remotely sensed images and landscape metrics, we analyze the land use structure and landscape dynamics in a typical region of rapid urbanization in China—Shenzhen during the period of 1980-2010. The results showed that the dominant semi-natural and agricultural landscape has been fundamentally converted into the human-induced landscape. At the landscape level, the signatures of landscape dynamics exhibited a coalescence-diffusion-coalescence pattern. At the class level, the degree of fragmentation and shape complexity of four main land use types substantially increased.

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Understanding the Informal Morphology of Villages-in-the-City: A Case Study in Hanoi City, Vietnam

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132313136 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 13136

Author(s):

Ngo Kien Thinh ◽

Yun Gao

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Morphological Characteristics ◽

Production Of Space ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Rural Villages ◽

Self Organized ◽

Informal Urbanism ◽

The City ◽

Practical Level

This paper explores the production of space in the villages-in-the-city (ViCs) through a morphological perspective. During the urbanization process, rural villages originally located in the peri-area of a metropolis are eventually merged into the urban landscape. Due to lack of proper planning, these villages have faced serious criticism due to informality, self-organized development and sub-standard living conditions, and planning policies tend to focus on demolition rather than on incrementally upgrading ViCs on the same site. In this paper, we focus on the fluidity of spaces in ViCs by drawing on a case study in Hanoi, Vietnam. The key research methods are mapping, observation and visual recording. The findings illustrate how informal urbanism works in ViCs regarding spatial structure, public/private interfaces and incremental upgrading. On a theoretical level, this research helps to enrich the description of the morphological characteristics of ViCs with relation to the effects of rapid urbanization. On a practical level, this study contributes to the ways in which researchers and planners can engage with incremental changes in the integrated village.

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Analysis of the Impact of Land Use on Spatiotemporal Patterns of Surface Urban Heat Island in Rapid Urbanization, a Case Study of Shanghai, China

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12031171 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 1171 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hongyu Du ◽

Fengqi Zhou ◽

Chunlan Li ◽

Wenbo Cai ◽

Hong Jiang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Heat Island ◽

Land Surface ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Heat Island ◽

Rapid Urbanization ◽

Urban Heat ◽

Surface Urban Heat Island ◽

The Impact

In the trend of global warming and urbanization, frequent extreme weather influences the life of citizens seriously. Shanghai, as a typical mega-city in China that has been successful in urbanization, suffers seriously from the urban heat island (UHI) effect. The research concentrates on the spatial and temporal pattern of surface UHI and land use. Then, the relation between them are further discussed. The results show that for the last 15 years, the UHI effect of Shanghai has been increasing continuously in both intensity and area. The UHI extends from the city center toward the suburban area. Along with the year, the ratio in area of Agricultural Land (AL), Wetland (WL), and Bare Land (BL) has decreased. On the contrary, Construction Land (CL) and Green Land (GL) have increased. The average land surface temperature (LST) rankings for each research year from high to low were all CL, BL, GL, AL, and WL. CL contributed the most to the UHI effect, while WL and GL contributed the most to mitigate the UHI. The conclusion provides practical advice aimed to mitigate the UHI effect for urban planning authorities.

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Assessing the impact of the urban landscape on heat wave episodes: a case study of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5728 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Gara Villalba ◽

Sergi Ventura ◽

Joan Gilabert ◽

Alberto Martilli ◽

Alba Badia

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Heat Wave ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Land Surface ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Anthropogenic Heat ◽

Surface Model

Currently, around 54% of the world's population is living in urban areas and this number is projected to increase by 66% by 2050. In the past years, cities have been experiencing heat wave episodes that affect the population. As the modern urban landscape is continually evolving, with green spaces and parks becoming a more integral component and with suburbs expanding outward from city centres into previously rural, agricultural, and natural areas, we need tools to learn how to best implement planning strategies that minimize heat waves.&#160; In this study we use the Weather and Research Forecasting model (WRF) with a multi-layer layer scheme, the Building Effect Parameterization (BEP) coupled with the Building Energy Model (BEP+BEM, Salamanca and Martilli, 2010) to take into account the energy consumption of buildings and anthropogenic heat generated by air conditioning systems. The urban canopy scheme takes into account city morphology (e.g. building and street canyon geometry) and surface characteristics (e.g. albedo, heat capacity, emissivity, urban/vegetation fraction). The Community Land Surface Model (CLM) is used in WRF that uses 16 different plant functional types (PFTs) as the basis for land-use differentiation. &#160;Furthermore, we use the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) classification which has 11 urban land use categories with specific thermal, radiative and geometric parameters of the buildings and ground to compute the heat and momentum fluxes in the urban areas.&#160; The objective is to validate the model and establish relationships between urban morphology and land use with temperature, so that the model can be used to simulate land use scenarios to investigate the effectiveness of different mitigation strategies to lower urban temperatures during the summer months.&#160;We test the methods with the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB) as a case study. The AMB is representative of the Mediterranean climate, with mild winters and hot summers. With a heterogeneous urban landscape, the AMB covers 636 km2 (34% built, 23% agricultural, and 31% vegetation) and has more than five million habitants. We simulate the heat wave that occurred in August 2018, during which temperatures stayed between 30 and 40&#186;C for five consecutive days and compare results with observed data from five different weather stations. We then simulate a potential scenario changing land surface from built to vegetation, in accordance with Barcelona&#180;s strategic climate plan, and the potential impact the land use change has on reducing heat wave episodes.

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