Residential Land Use in Urban Fringes of China: Spatial Heterogeneity and Readjustment Mode

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively analyze the residential land use characteristic of spatial form heterogeneity based on the analysis of evolvement process of the land use form in urban fringes of China, and to establish corresponding patterns to readjust the residential land use form. Method of information entropy analysis was employed in this paper. The result shows that: (1) Residential land use system in urban fringes is a complicated and macro system. The spatial form of residential land rest with the evolvement time and original land use mode. Accordingly, spatial form heterogeneity of residential land in urban fringes is influenced by land evolvement phases and original land use mode. (2) Taking use of the land use constitution data which gathered form the sample residential areas in urban fringes of Beijing, this paper conducts analysis on the spatial form heterogeneity of residential land of Beijing, the result shows that, there are 4 types land use forms in the urban fringes of Beijing based on the result of calculating the entropy values of different regions. (3) It should take corresponding measures of low entropy transmuting to readjust residential land use form in urban fringes, so as to utilize the land in urban fringes efficiently, and to accelerate the improvement of economy, society and civilization in urban fringes based on the regulation of substantial form and landscape. (4) Based on the type of residential land, it should take corresponding mode of spatial regulation to readjust residential land use form. The readjustment modes are multiple measures which rely on the efforts of government, community and public.