A Comprehensive Measurement of the Utility of Land Use of 16 City-regions in China
The utility of land use of city-regions, which is defined as the comprehensive performance of the socio-economic activities that utilize the land, proves crucially significant in sustaining the development of city-regions. It can be measured in three dimensions, i.e. capacity, structure and intensity. Following that conceptual framework, we conducted a comprehensive measurement of the utility of land use of 16 city-regions in China by building up a hierarchical index system, scoring the three dimensions weighted by the entropy of the indices, and systematic clustering the 16 city-regions based on the three groups of scores. The results show a moderate utility of land use of city-regions in China as a whole and highlight the spatial discrepancy from the coast to the hinterland. High-utility city-regions perform well in the capacity and intensity dimensions. Moderate-utility city-regions score high in the capacity dimension, remain inferior in the structure dimension and enjoy a huge intensity potential to be tapped into. Some of the low-utility city-regions, however, reach an above average level only in the structure dimension.
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维普
