Abstract: | With the acceleration of construction process in Shanghai, increase in an- thropologic engineering economic activities and the intensity of the role played by urban geology , the problems of urban environmental geology in Shanghai and its development in the 2lst century, this paper expounds the features and influence of problems of environ- mental geology , such as the ground settlement in Shanghai , the pollution of groundwater , the effect of methane pockets in the soft stratum at Waigaoqiao on underground structures ( underground markets , tunnels etc . ) and the restriction of the municipal construction in Shanghai due to the co - action of the rise of sea level with the ground settlement in the years to come . Dealing with the effect of the natural environmental geology which has special significance for the environmental geological conditions of Shanghai , it also discusses the influence of urban environmental geology , which is closely related with human factors on sustainable development of Shanghai City. |