Since the 1980s, metropolitan areas have increased worldwide due to urbanization and
regionalization. While the spatial integration of the labor and housing markets has benefitted …

Historical patterns and driving forces of land-use change were investigated in Shanghai
under the background of drastic socioeconomic transition in China. Differing from the …

Since the inception of China's reform and opening-up policy, the rapidly advancing process
of urbanization and the primacy accorded to urban development policies have imparted …

Rapid expansion of urban land areas in the past few decades has exerted great pressure on
regional environment, and simulating urban land dynamics is of great significance for …

Differences in the internal composite structure during urban built-up land sprawl (UBLS) will
generate different effects, and thus, a city's spatial structure has important bearings on urban …

Context To prevent the area of arable land from crossing the limit of 120 million ha arable
land red line, China's government proposed a linked urban–rural construction land policy …

Rural residential land transition (RRLT) dominates rural land use transition. Therefore,
analysing the laws of transition and differentiation of land use is not only the basis for the …

China is experiencing a tough transformation from rapid growth to quality development, with
extensive implementation of land redevelopment. Previous studies have analyzed the …

The looming challenge of global land scarcity entails shaping urban structure towards more
efficient land use. To figure out how urban structure affects urban land-use efficiency …

In urban and rural areas under rapid urbanization, a proper understanding of the
relationship between population and construction land use is important for regional …