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Rapid urbanization has caused many environmental impacts associated with the reduction of green space. Having realized the importance of green space in urban ecosystems, local governments in China have set out a series of green space control planning. However, the relationship between the evolution of green space and control planning is not well studied in existing literature. This paper combines the analysis of remote sensing image interpretation to characterize the changing patterns of green space in Wuhan, China from 1995 to 2015. Results revealed that green space control planning accounted for the process of green space change, but failed to achieve its management and control objectives, the urban growth boundary (UGB) has broken. Although forests have efficiently recovered in some places, a significant amount of farmland and grassland have been invaded and damaged by urban expansion in the suburbs of the city. This situation has not been efficiently improved after the introduction of the control planning. We then further discuss the underlying causes of unproductive control planning by considering the stage of development in Midwest China. The analysis indicates that ignorance for the demands of regional development, disorganization among the governments and failure of suburban planning are the key factors contributing to inefficient planning.
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According to Northam’s urbanization curve, the urban population goes from 25% to 70% is recognized as the period of “urbanization accelerates” (NorthamR M 1975).
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According to the hydrological data of Wuhan, there is a significant amount of hydrological difference between the summer wet season in Wuhan and the rivers and lakes in the dry season in winter and spring, and the long-span distribution of the remote sensing images in this study is within one year. Therefore, although the water area belongs to the green space, it is not used as a quantitative evaluation value in this study, only a reference value.
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We would like to give our special thanks to the following funding: (1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Program Number: 51408248, 51478199, 51608213, 51778253); (2) China Scholarship Council (No. 201706165048); (3) The Recruitment Program of Global Experts (Youth Group) of China (Grant No. D1218006).
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Wang, Z., Li, C., Yang, T. (2021). Spatial–Temporal Variations of Green Space in Metropolitan Area: The Case of Wuhan, China. In: Li, W., Hu, L., Cao, J. (eds) Human-Centered Urban Planning and Design in China: Volume I . GeoJournal Library, vol 129. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83856-0_4
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