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This paper identifies the different planning approaches of new urbanism for planning a sustainable city. Transect is one such approach which enables a zoning of the city and the application of sustainable planning principles. The paper analyses the current planning approach in the study area-Chennai city- Land use Zoning Model with different Land use zoning regulations and the building development...
Japan leads the world in green technology. With the expansion of the scale of land development and the higher level of civil Engineering Construction mechanization, Japan has already developed the appropriate technology to green land. Japanese government implements strict environmental protection measures. The concept of ecologically sustainable development take root in people's community. Many of...
Aiming at the problem of the low rate of land utilization, poor living conditions in rural residential area, this paper puts forward the concept of new rural residential area construction which of the characteristics such as clear aim, sustainable development, systematic construction, regional differences, urban-rural coordination, and diversity of subjects. It also analyzes the problems and the reasons...
Ecological footprint is a viable approach to measure the ecological economic system of a region, as an important method in harmonizing land-use and ecological environment. According to the concept and calculation method of ecological footprint and ecological harmonious degree, the ecological footprint and ecological harmonious degree of Gu'an County in 2008 were analyzed with related statistical data...
With the development of economy, the social economy condition of Wuhan city has changed a lot. Land use change is the most remarkable among the changes which has deep influence on economy development, ecology change, and land sustainable development, et al, especially on the urbanization, more direct and remarkable. This article mainly analyzes Wuhan's land use change condition in the progress of...
The contradiction between the presences of extensively use of urban land and the existence of tight supply and excess demand for land becomes more and more fierce. Consequently, how to improve the intensively use of urban land becomes a hotspot. Based on definition of sustainable and intensive use of urban land and the fact of land using in Tianjin, this paper established an evaluation system including...
The urban growth trends of the key metropolitan cities of India ,in the post economic reforms era beginning 1991, are characterized by a multitude of problems associated with low density, low rise and unregulated sprawl without adequate infrastructure, leading to loss of fertile agricultural lands and other phenomenon of unsustainable urban development. The paper, after discussing the present pattern...
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