Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4402419 Procedia Environmental Sciences 2013 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

This article aims at the discussion on sustainable development as the response to current trend of sustainable city. Under the issues of climate change and limited resources, a good land use allocation improves city effectiveness, and is also a way of practices reflecting on city's sustainable development. This concept should be emphasized on Taiwan New Town for pursuing sustainable development in the future. By using ArcGIS as an analyzing tool, this article exams the spread effect on land-use changes from different types of growth pole in Linco new town, and concludes the necessary land uses on each kind of growth pole, so as to discuss an effectiveness strategy toward sustainable issue. The result appears the spread effect happened at the range of 600m. And under certain distance, growth pole is able to appeal to residential demand. The landscape metrics result reveals that the value in residential land use is the highest, while the change amount in commercial land use is the most.

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