From Rivers And Lakes To The City: The Evolution Of Modern Shanghai City Road System And Environment (1843-1949)

This paper focuses on the most important municipal means of modern Shanghai from 1843 to 1949,that is,filling-creeks-and-building-roads-on(填浜筑路),and the historical course of how the Tanglu(塘路) land use mode based on agricultural economy transformed to urban road land use mode.The writer tries to reconstruct the historical geographic background,process,driving forces and its environmental effect of this transformation of land use during Shanghai urbanization,employing historical geography method with the aid of data base and GIS.The academic contribution of this paper consists of two parts:1.It attributes to the forland of LUCC program based on the urbanization of a typical area during the historical period.It is a typical case study on regional land use and environmental change.2.It is the particular research on creek-net change and environmental effect of the whole Tai Lake area influenced by modern urbanization.The conclusion is that the minor difference between urban land use and agricultural land use during the traditional age became much larger since Shanghai began its modem urbanization in 1843.The continuation of the agricultural land use conflicts the serious degeneration of creek-net covered by urban area.This was resulted by the unbalance between people's behavior,social mechanism and ecology.The balance point of human's behavior and nature of this region,is to survey overally the regional environmental quality and its role in the urban planning and construction.This is very important to the continuabal development of Shanghai society nowadays or in the future.