Land Use Design and Regional Development for Making a Urban Living Good and Joyful

This paper proposes two planning methods for guiding urban growth and managing urban expansion, especially in large urban areas. One is concerned about a mono-centered urban structure; the other refers to a multi-centered urban structure which helps create sustainable living conditions. Without proposing a consistent planning system rebuilt through a consensus-oriented long-term planning process, our urban environments will become endangered to malfunction. The great cities will be eventually degraded by inconsistent political intervention that might further cause environmental pollution, urban congestion, distorted settlement structure and social disintegration. Here in particular, green belt issues will be examined in view of forming appropriate urban spaces. The problems and merits of both planning cases will be carefully analysed and identified, and optimum planning concepts will be proposed on certain principles and conditions with respect to land use, rational use of energy, urban climate, urban settlement patterns, urban green space, and urban traffic.