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     Geo-information Science , Pages 94-98
 

Analysis on the Spatial-temporal Characteristics of Guangzhou City’s Spatial Morphologic Evolution
MU Fengyun, ZHANG Zengxiang, TAN Wenbin

1 重庆交通大学河海学院,重庆 400074;  2中国科学院遥感应用研究所,北京 100101 

Abstract

Based on the historic literatures and remotely sensed images, this paper studies the spatial-temporal characteristics of Guangzhou city’s spatial morphologic evolution in recent one hundred years, and summarizes the historic characteristics and the laws of urban development since the formation of Guangzhou, especially the period since the implementation of reform and open policies. On the whole, Guangzhou experienced two major stages, i.e., traditional urban development period before 1923 and modern urbanization development period from 1923 to 2004, covering several sub-periods of stabilization period and fast development period. The total increased built-up area of the city from 1979 to 2004 is 385.56 km2, an expansion of 3.46 times, and the average expansion rate is about 15.43 km2 per year. Many factors have contributed to the urban spatial morphologic evolution. But four major driving forces, i.e., economic development, institution and policy change, city planning and transportation system are the most important factors. Physiographic environment is the base of the city expansion; economic development is the inherent impetus for the evolution of the spatial morphology, and city planning plays a vital guiding role to the construction and development.
Keywords: Guangzhou; urban morphology; spatial-temporal characteristic; remote sensing

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2007 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS.