STUDY ON ECOLOGICAL SPACE OF URBAN AGGLOMERATION—Taking Wuxi City as an Example

From the angle of ecology, urban agglomeration presents relevant types of landscape structure, which in-clude Patch, Corridor and Matrix. There are different landscape features and different problems in different developmentphases. This paper has put forward five basic conditions for security pattern of landscape ecology of urban agglomeration,described quantitatively the features for landscape ecology in Wuxi, and analyzed ecological background of spatial expan-sion and spatial organization of urban development in Wuxi. From the angle of ecological land use and non-ecological landuse, the paper has analyzed the features of land use and ecological distribution of land in the urban area. The spatial mod-el of cities and towns in Wuxi is composed of one metropolis, two urban zones and three development axes. This thesishas planned preliminarily ecological protection network at four levels in the urban region according to four layers. At last,combining landscape ecology with urban space, a tentative security pattern of landscape ecology has been planned in Wux-i, namely Source-Buffer Zone and Metropolis, Radiating Routes and Expansion Direction of City, Strategic Point and Interac-tion between Cities and Towns, Inter-Source Linkage-Corridor of a Stable Landscape Structure.

Study on ecological space of urban agglomeration

From the angle of ecology, urban agglomeration presents relevant types of landscape structure, which include Patch, Corridor and Matrix. There are different landscape features and different problems in different development phases. This paper has put forward five basic conditions for security pattern of landscape ecology of urban agglomeration, described quantitatively the features for landscape ecology in Wuxi, and analyzed ecological background of spatial expansion and spatial organization of urban development in Wuxi. From the angle of ecological land use and non-ecological land use, the paper has analyzed the features of land use and ecological distribution of land in the urban area. The spatial model of cities and towns in Wuxi is composed of one metropolis, two urban zones and three development axes. This thesis has planned preliminarily ecological protection network at four levels in the urban region according to four layers. At last, combining landscape ecology with urban space, a tentative security pattern of landscape ecology has been planned in Wuxi, namely Source-Buffer Zone and Metropolis, Radiating Routes and Expansion Direction of City, Strategic Point and Interaction between Cities and Towns, Inter-Source Linkage-Corridor of a Stable Landscape Structure. Foundation item: Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 90102013; No. 40171007), the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX1-10-07-04). Biography: XUE Dong-qian (1965 –), male, a native of Baotou City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ph. D., associate professor. His main research interests include urban study and regional research. E-mail: xuedq@igsnrr.ac.cn; Biography: XUE Dong-qian (1965 –), male, a native of Baotou City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ph. D., associate professor. His main research interests include urban study and regional research. E-mail: xuedq@igsnrr.ac.cn;