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The advent of globally distributed computing services and network access allows ‘big data’ on consumption to be used to model, explain and predict consumer behavior at resolutions that range from individual cities to whole countries. Given access to suitable infrastructure, the most significant challenge is to create conditions under which ‘Data Scientists’ may access and manipulate the required data...
Based on the basic data of the housing price and housing price-to-income ratio in 286 prefecture-level cities in 2009, this paper analyzes the spatial differentiation pattern, overall trend, spatial heterogeneity and correlation between the absolute housing price and relative housing price. The results show that: 1) there is significant spatial differentiation in terms of China's urban housing price,...
With significant urbanization effects, the urban heat island effect has been reported in many cities. There are many related researches on urban heat island effect in a single city or urban agglomeration. In this paper, MODIS land surface temperature products, maps of global urban extent, gross domestic product, and population data were used to analyze the relationship between urban heat island intensity...
The spatial pattern of economic zones is changing ceaselessly during the process of its natural, historical and objective evolution. In China, the scientific division and function of economic zones in the new period expedite the regional harmonious development and the building of a well-off society. With the support of geographical information technology, 16 regional central cities and 21 sub-central...
Due to fast urbanization, natural ecosystems are increasingly being replaced by urban development. Human health is also being threatened. Shanghai has been experiencing a rapid urbanization for over two decades. It is challenging to protect the unique natural ecosystem for planners and decision makers because of the complex ecosystems and other factors. This paperpresentsan integrated method for planning...
Since the late 1990s, the rapid urbanisation process in China has been related to an apparent paradigm change in the spatial development model of Chinese city regions. With the development focus shifting to large cities, the roles and development patterns of small towns have changed. The bottom-up, self-organised and dispersed development models that prevailed during the 1980s are less relevant. Instead,...
The progress of China's fast-paced urbanization is a land development process. Driven by “land bonus”, many lands with high quality visual resources have been used to develop estate in an unsustainable way. In the basis of drawing the relevant theory and research approach both at home and abroad, the paper attempts to present some strategies of visual resources protection and reserve basing on the...
The process of Chinese urbanization and rural development has developed to a stage of urban-rural integration. Due to the impact of urban culture and villagers' spontaneous desire for urban civilization, villages and rural communities are in a tendency of convergent compounds, the traditional rural environment, characteristics and spatial pattern of villages disappearing, and thus this has caused...
Because grade evaluation is an essential teaching link to test and improve students' creation, and also it is an important means to instruct students to study actively and creatively, the reform of the methods of grade evaluation is a challenge to the traditional concepts and standards of talent evaluation. In this paper, first, many excellent operation methods, notions of evaluation and technical...
As the population of China becomes more urbanized, cities will continue to expand, unknowingly igniting the multi-dimensional vulnerability of human settlements. Sustainable urban settlement requires serious manifestation in the form of low-carbon city construction. The growing urbanization trend, especially in mountain areas and in coastal areas, makes the search for policy solutions acute. Climate...
Extracting urban land of China timely and accurately is essential for recognizing and understanding the urban pattern and urbanization process in China. Stable nighttime light data obtained by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) provides an economical and straightforward way to map the distribution of urban land. However, all the current methods of extracting...
The stable lights data in the Version 4 Nighttime Lights Time Series Dataset gained by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Line-scan System can't be used to map urban areas directly because the data has no on-board calibration and many unstable lights are also included in the data. So the systematic correction was performed before the urban areas extraction according to the...
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD), a strategy focusing development around transit stations, was brought forward in the US in 1990s and promoted worldwide. Many Chinese cities are building or planning to build mass rapid transit systems, which provides a golden opportunity to realize truly sustainable urban transportation. However, the land developments surrounding transit stations are Transit-Adjacent...
This paper examines the development impacts of French TGV and analyzes its implications for China. It first provides the research background and introduces the relevance of European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) to the theme of China's coordinated urban and rural development and planning. The paper then reviews the most important literatures related to the development impacts of high-speed...
Landsat TM images of the Pearl River Delta taken in 1988, 1998 and 2006 are used to explore the Construction land Expansion and the Influence of Site Factors. The expansion shows the characteristics of gathering on plains and along major roads and coastlines in both periods from 1988 to 1998 and from 1998 to 2006. Several site factors, including landscape types and the distance from roads, coastlines,...
The monitoring about the changes of land use and cover and NPP in mining area is one of hot spots in the field of resources and environment. Combining with ground field survey data, the remote sensing image in different periods in mining area and the geographic information technology are used to study the changes of Land Use and Cover and NPP. The results show that the degree of the change of land...
In the renovation of the old cities in contemporary china, the way of building first has been generally adopted for a long time. Land function transformation is made as a top priority in urban renewal for land value increment and tax. In this way, what is gained in economic interests temporarily is lost in the historical value and feature of old city. The paper presents a strategy of considering first...
Economy hotel is a relatively new concept, and first appeared in China in the late 1990's. After a rapid growth in the 2000's, the industry has become highly competitive and pricing strategy has become crucial for a company to succeed in such an industry. In this paper, we apply the game theory to quantitatively analyze the competitive pricing strategies. Nash equilibrium is characterized and other...
China's Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) is prone to flood, where the population exposure, death risk and economic loss risk are very high. We apply an ArcGIS environment to combine the gridded data of the world population (GPW) and flood disaster risk data from Hotspots and Chinese administrative division to analyze the spatial distributions of flood occurrence frequency, death risk, economic loss...
Four dates Landsat MSS, TM and ETM+ images together with historical topographic maps, land use maps were used to analyze and quantify the temporal dynamics and spatial pattern of land use/cover changes and identify the urban expansion in Xining city, northwest China. The results indicated that from 1977 to 2007, the areas of cultivated land, grassland and unused land decreased by 3.31%, 1.1% and 0...
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