Based on the remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) analysis of the Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) and thematic mapper (TM) satellite images of 1983, 1993, and 2005, the present research exam...Based on the remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) analysis of the Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) and thematic mapper (TM) satellite images of 1983, 1993, and 2005, the present research examined the effectiveness of the urban construction boundaries (UCBs) in containing urban growth within the 6th Ring Road of Beijing Municipality. Three indicators on boundary control were proposed, through which the effectiveness of boundary containment, land inventory sufficiency and illegal adjacent development to the UCBs were explored. The results suggested that, first, the UCBs were limited in effectiveness in containing urban growth; second, the area encompassed by the UCBs might not be designed large enough to accommodate new development. The frustration of the urban growth control through the UCBs mainly resulted from the lack of a transparent system for urban land use planning and control to provide sufficient information, the limitation of the traditional land use prediction method to consider contingencies, and the absence of a mechanism to monitor and adjust the UCBs to respond just in time to urban change.展开更多
Urban growth boundary(UGB)is a regulatory measure of local government for delineating limits of urban growth over a period of time.Land within the UGB allows urban development,while the land outside of this boundary r...Urban growth boundary(UGB)is a regulatory measure of local government for delineating limits of urban growth over a period of time.Land within the UGB allows urban development,while the land outside of this boundary remains primarily non-urban.The increasing popularity of UGB demands an easy and effective method to design this boundary.This article introduces a new concept,Ideal Urban Radial Proximity(IURP),to designate a spatial UGB using geoinformatics in the digital environment.The Kolkata urban agglomeration was considered to demonstrate this model.Remotely sensed imageries of three temporal instants(years 1975,1990 and 2005)were considered to determine the information on urban extent and growth of the city.These data were then used as inputs to model the UGB for the years 2020 and 2035.The proposed model discourages scattered development and increase in urban growth rate.It preserves urban vegetation,water bodies and any other important non-urban areas within the inner city space.The IURP concept will also be useful to make the cities circular and polycentric urban blobs into a monocentric tract.Apart from the proposed model and derived results,this research also proves the potential of geoinformatics in modelling a UGB.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50678088)the National Key Technology R&D Program (No. 2006BAJ14B08)the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (No. 20080430210)
文摘Based on the remote sensing (RS) and geographic information system (GIS) analysis of the Landsat multispectral scanner (MSS) and thematic mapper (TM) satellite images of 1983, 1993, and 2005, the present research examined the effectiveness of the urban construction boundaries (UCBs) in containing urban growth within the 6th Ring Road of Beijing Municipality. Three indicators on boundary control were proposed, through which the effectiveness of boundary containment, land inventory sufficiency and illegal adjacent development to the UCBs were explored. The results suggested that, first, the UCBs were limited in effectiveness in containing urban growth; second, the area encompassed by the UCBs might not be designed large enough to accommodate new development. The frustration of the urban growth control through the UCBs mainly resulted from the lack of a transparent system for urban land use planning and control to provide sufficient information, the limitation of the traditional land use prediction method to consider contingencies, and the absence of a mechanism to monitor and adjust the UCBs to respond just in time to urban change.
文摘Urban growth boundary(UGB)is a regulatory measure of local government for delineating limits of urban growth over a period of time.Land within the UGB allows urban development,while the land outside of this boundary remains primarily non-urban.The increasing popularity of UGB demands an easy and effective method to design this boundary.This article introduces a new concept,Ideal Urban Radial Proximity(IURP),to designate a spatial UGB using geoinformatics in the digital environment.The Kolkata urban agglomeration was considered to demonstrate this model.Remotely sensed imageries of three temporal instants(years 1975,1990 and 2005)were considered to determine the information on urban extent and growth of the city.These data were then used as inputs to model the UGB for the years 2020 and 2035.The proposed model discourages scattered development and increase in urban growth rate.It preserves urban vegetation,water bodies and any other important non-urban areas within the inner city space.The IURP concept will also be useful to make the cities circular and polycentric urban blobs into a monocentric tract.Apart from the proposed model and derived results,this research also proves the potential of geoinformatics in modelling a UGB.
