Balancing Economic Development and the Preservation of Agricultural Land: An Evaluation of Shanghai's Municipal Land Use Plan |
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| Authors: | Wenwei Ren Zhiyao Zhang Bruce Anderson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering , School of Life Sciences, Fudan University , Shanghai , People's Republic of China;2. School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario , Canada;3. Civil Engineering Department , Queen's University , Kingston , Ontario , Canada |
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| Abstract: | The megacity of Shanghai faces enormous planning challenges, particularly controlling rapid urban growth and preserving some of the world's most fertile agricultural land. Almost two-thirds of Shanghai's territory is classified as agricultural land. Maintaining this high ratio of agricultural land to total land area and, at the same time, accommodating a large and rapidly increasing urban population represents an immense and complex planning challenge. Shanghai has recently adopted a Municipal Land Use Plan to address some of these planning challenges. This article provides a review, analysis and critique of Shanghai's Municipal Land Use Plan. From a review of the relevant literature, this article develops a framework to evaluate Shanghai's plan. This framework provides a qualitative assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the SMLUP's overall goal of preserving arable land and fostering urban-economic development.  | |
| Keywords: | Comprehensive land use plan plan evaluation land use planning Shanghai China |
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