The rapid development of urbanization has driven irreversible changes in land use, the
Chinese government has adopted 'the National New-type Urbanization Plan'focusing on …

Abstract The Sustainable Urban Land Use Policy is a critical component of sustainable land
use in China, aiming to improve the urban land use efficiency, increase land output, protect …

On 16 March 2014, the State Council of China launched its first urbanization planning
initiative dubbed “National New Urbanization Planning (2014–2020)”(NNUP). NNUP put …

The intensification of urbanization has had a significant impact on land-use change,
ecosystem services, and the urban environment in China. In this paper, we measured land …

A series of negative effects of urban development have emerged owing to the imbalance of
population, industry, and built-up land spatial agglomeration. This study proposes an …

Sustainable development is a commonly pursued goal worldwide, and assessing urban
sustainability has gradually become central to formulating urban development policies and …

Cities are complex ecosystems affected by social, economic, environmental, and cultural
factors. The problem of attaining urban sustainable development is thus an important …

With the accelerating urbanization process, there is an increasing shortage of land resource.
It leads to an increasingly serious conflicts between built-up areas and other types of land …

Cities are hybrid socioeconomic-natural ecosystems that represent humanity's densest
concentrations of people and their activities. Changes in land use have led to the dramatic …

Since the 20th century, urbanization has been the main characteristic of global land
development. If we can reveal and understand the characteristics and underlying …