Urban agriculture and urban sustainable development

In the process of industrialization and rapid urbanization, with the deterioration of ecological environment and the advocating of urban sustainable development concept, urban agriculture has developed gradually. There is a complex and close connection between urban agriculture and urban sustainable development; this paper discusses the interacting mechanism between urban agriculture and the urban system. Based on "core-periphery" theory, multifunctionnality of agriculture theory and so on, this paper analyzes the basic situation of urban agricultural development by using the panel data of 16 cities from 2000 to 2008 in China, and further puts forward urban agricultural and urban sustainable development strategy which is based on the urban and rural unified planning.