Abstract: |
From the later 1990s, the academic circle and governments of America have paid close attention to the problems of sprawl. Various policies focused on controlling sprawl were implemented by governments of different levels. The detailed method included comprehensive utilization of financial incentives, planning controlling, taxation, special fee and etc. For the same purpose, urbanized area, urbanizing area, agriculture and rural area were controlled separately. In the whole policy framework, there exists complete system to predict and evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency, equity and feasibility of policies. The intensive land use policies of China could be compared with policies of controlling sprawl in America. The comparison is expected to push the innovation progress which includes values, technical methods, content and procedure of policies. |