- Urban Sprawl: A case study of Shenzhen, China    524 kb by    QI, Lei & LU, Bin | qileibeida@163.com    Short Outline This paper provides an integrated analysis of urban sprawl based on GIS, especially on the variation of land use pattern and the dynamics of urban sprawl, and presents Shenzhen as a case study. Abstract Urban sprawl has been a widespread phenomenon on the earth for decades and now it attracts much more attention than ever before. Compared with the plentiful literature on urban sprawl in western countries, there is relatively fewer studies on the developing countries, especially on China, which is now one of the most high-speed urbanization regions in the world. This paper provides an integrated analysis of urban sprawl based on GIS, especially on the variation of land use pattern and the dynamics of urban sprawl, and presents Shenzhen as a case study. The result shows that the land use pattern of Shenzhen has been changed sharply from 2001 to 2005, mostly due to the increase of manufacture and residence, and in fact, the contribution rate which they have made to the variation of land use pattern even gets up to 83.09%. In this paper, the principal component analysis is also used to study the dynamics of urban sprawl in Shenzhen. And it finds that urban sprawl has a close relationship with the socio-economic factors, such as GDP, gross output value of industry and total investment in fixed assets, and their cumulative contribution rate arrives at 99.32%. In the end, it gives the advice to the cities of China on how to effectively control urban sprawl and make the urbanization develop in a sustainable way in the future. Keywords Urban sprawl; Land use pattern; Principal component analysis; GIS; Shenzhen Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2008: Urban Growth without Sprawl   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper