The inclusion of differentially assessed lands in urban growth model calibration: a comparison of two approaches using SLEUTH

This research sought to understand the role that differentially assessed lands (lands in the United States given tax breaks in return for their guarantee to remain in agriculture) play in influencing urban growth. Our method was to calibrate the SLEUTH urban growth model under two different conditions. The first used an excluded layer that ignored such lands, effectively rendering them available for development. The second treated those lands as totally excluded from development. Our hypothesis was that excluding those lands would yield better metrics of fit with past data. Our results validate our hypothesis since two different metrics that evaluate goodness of fit both yielded higher values when differentially assessed lands are treated as excluded. This suggests that, at least in our study area, differential assessment, which protects farm and ranch lands for tenuous periods of time, has indeed allowed farmland to resist urban development. Including differentially assessed lands also yielded very different calibrated coefficients of growth as the model tried to account for the same growth patterns over two very different excluded areas. Excluded layer design can greatly affect model behavior. Since differentially assessed lands are quite common through the United States and are often ignored in urban growth modeling, the findings of this research can assist other urban growth modelers in designing excluded layers that result in more accurate model calibration and thus forecasting.     

区域旅游产业集聚与绩效的关系研究——基于中国31个省区的实证

利用Gini系数、E-G指数、行业地区集中度等产业集聚指标以及产业利润率、就业系数、劳动生产率等产业绩效衡量指标,基于2010年的截面数据,探究中国旅游产业集聚化发展及其与产业绩效之间的关系。结果表明:整体旅游产业的集聚程度较低,但产业内部各行业的区域集聚特征明显;旅游产业集聚程度的区域差异与区位条件差异具有较高的一致性;旅游产业集聚总体上对产业绩效的提高具有积极影响,其中,旅游产业集聚对产业利润率和劳动生产率的提高有显著的正向影响,但是对于就业机会的增加影响甚微。基于上述结论,提出相关政策建议。     

A heuristic cellular automata approach for modelling urban land-use change based on simulated annealing

This article presents a novel cellular automata (CA) approach to simulate the spatio-temporal process of urban land-use change based on the simulated annealing (SA) algorithm. The SA algorithm enables dynamic optimisation of the CA's transition rules that would otherwise be difficult to configure using conventional mathematical methods. In this heuristic approach, an objective function is constructed based on a theoretical accumulative disagreement between the simulated land-use pattern and the actual land-use pattern derived from remotely sensed imagery. The function value that measures the mismatch between the actual and the simulated land-use patterns would be minimised randomly through the SA process. Hence, a set of attribution parameters that can be used in the CA model is achieved. An SA optimisation tool was developed using Matlab and incorporated into the cellular simulation in GIS to form an integrated SACA model. An application of the SACA model to simulate the spatio-temporal process of land-use change in Jinshan District of Shanghai Municipality, PR China, from 1992 to 2008 shows that this modelling approach is efficient and robust and can be used to reconstruct historical urban land-use patterns to assist with urban planning policy-making and actions. Comparison of the SACA model with a typical CA model based on a logistic regression method without the SA optimisation (also known as LogCA) shows that the SACA model generates better simulation results than the LogCA model, and the improvement of the SACA over the LogCA model is largely attributed to higher locational accuracy, a feature desirable in most spatially explicit simulations of geographical processes.     

大城市边缘区农村居民点用地空间布局优化研究——对上海南汇地区的考察

大城市边缘区农村居民点用地存在用地粗放、布局散乱、难于规范管理等问题。以大城市边缘区农村居民点用地整理为契机,优化空间布局不仅有利于形成农村经济新增长点,还可促进农村居民点土地集约节约利用。在分析当地农村居民点用地现状及其分布状况的基础上,以典型地区——上海南汇地区为例,对其空间分布的随机性进行了检验,对农村居民点用地按标准偏差分类,并进一步按欧氏空间距离对大于2.25标准偏差的地块进行聚类分析。结果显示:南汇地区农村居民点用地的空间分布并不是随机分布,可分为远离中心类和集聚中心类两种类型。依据结果,提出了"远离中心方案"和"集聚中心方案"两种不同的农村居民点用地整理方案。     

基于“点—轴系统”理论的鲁南旅游长廊建构

＂点—轴系统＂理论是区域开发的基础性理论,对于区域旅游开发同样具有重要的理论价值和现实指导意义。基于＂点—轴系统＂理论,在对旅游规划概念上的鲁南经济带进行修正的基础上,结合鲁南经济带旅游资源状况和旅游发展现状,提出重点打造以曲阜、日照、枣庄、临沂、菏泽、东平为核心的6个一级旅游增长点;以日东高速、105国道、206国道为发展轴线的3个一级旅游发展轴;形成圣人文化旅游板块、日照滨海旅游板块、湖滨红色休闲养生旅游板块、蒙山沂水红色逍遥游旅游板块、水浒休闲生态旅游板块六大各具特色的旅游板块。从而＂点-线-面＂共同组成＂双十字＂开发模式的鲁南旅游长廊,以此来最大限度地发挥鲁南地区旅游资源的潜力,实现鲁南旅游的腾飞。     

珠江三角洲地区城中村土地供求的动态均衡分析

土地问题是我国城中村研究的核心问题。在对珠江三角洲地区城中村进行实地调研的基础上,就城中村主体的行为特征、城中村土地供应和需求的基本特征进行了总结。以理论推导与现实印证相结合的方法,基于经济学中的供求理论,对城中村土地供求变化进行了动态均衡分析。从村庄"内部人"的视角,考察在各种内外部因素变动(征地与留用地,城中村改造,村民城市化转型)的情况下,城中村主体如何实现土地的供应和需求均衡。总体上,城中村土地变化表现为土地需求被动地追随(因征地而发生的)供应减少而下降,以实现供求均衡。具体而言,在城中村形成阶段,供求均衡借助乡村工业化,即农业用地转为工业用地而实现;在城中村存续阶段,存在土地供求的逐渐失衡;在城中村改造阶段,供求均衡最终必须通过城市化,即村民转为市民而实现。     

统筹城乡发展导向的中心村镇建设理论思考

统筹城乡发展战略为促进乡村空间重构、优化城乡格局提出了新要求。中心村镇是连接城市和散乱村庄建设的纽带,通过推进一定乡村地域的组织、产业和空间"三整合",可以有效利用各种资源,促进农村经济、社会和环境的协调与健康发展,中心村镇建设的科学规划与决策也亟需相关理论支撑。以乡村地理学、乡村规划学和乡村社会学等领域为背景,着眼于空间、时间和主体3个维度,对增长极理论、中心地理论、农业区位论、经济成长阶段论、空心村生命周期理论、社区(公众)参与等中心村镇建设相关理论进行梳理分析,探讨了这些理论在我国中心村镇建设与规划中的应用,认为中心村镇建设需要加强基础理论研究,分类指导我国中心村镇建设的实践。     

长三角城市群空间联系与整合

城市群已成为我国城镇化发展的主体形态,是我国国民经济和国家综合竞争力的重要载体。长三角城市群被誉为世界第六大城市群,正处于城市化高速发展阶段,面临诸多区域性问题,如基础设施对接、人口跨区域流动等。基于城市流强度和城市经济联系强度模型,定量判断长三角城市群空间层级和联系程度。长三角城市群形成了以上海为中心,南京、杭州、苏州、无锡和宁波等特大城市为副中心的多中心支撑的网络化布局。据此,提出长三角城市群由上海城市群、南京城市群和杭甬城市群三大次级城市群组成,整合长三角城市群空间布局,加快区域一体化进程。     

广州城市交通系统与空间格局互动影响研究

该文在评述国内外相关研究的基础上,阐释城市交通系统与空间格局之间的互动影响关系。对广州城市交通系统与空间格局之间的互动影响关系的研究结果表明：广州城市交通系统的发展对空间格局的形成与发展有引导作用;城市空间格局的变化会产生反馈作用,客观上影响着交通系统的空间布局,两者之间存在—个互动反馈作用环。