The Characters of Urban Land Expansion in Southern Jiangsu Province and Its Problems
苏南地区近20年城市用地扩展的特点与问题

Urban land expansion and structure change are important characters in the process of urbanization.With the economic development and increase of population, the urban land in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou is expanding very quickly,and the scale of urban land use becomes very large.In 1980s, industrial land occupied the main sector of the total land expansion, but now land for public construction such as green land and living house and transportation has become the main sector.Urban styles in these regions have changed greatly because of the transportation and urban planning strategy.The main factors influencing the urban expansion are different;population increase, demand for living condition improvement, building of opening zones and changes of administration system have given rise to the change.In the future, such relationships must be handled well, external expansion and internal expansion, constructive land and living land, old city reconstruction and new district constructing, exploitation of new resources and intensive resources use.