A Study On Urban System Planning Of Fujian Coastal Zone Based On GIS

After 3 times' prosperity and decline since the 1980's, the cities and towns of Fujian Coastal Zone prospers again and are growing into one of the highly urban regions of China. This thesis deduces that it is necessary to draw up a program for the urban system development in this area by means of new technologies including Geographical Information System (GIS), and to practise the urban development policy based on this program for its better development in future. Faced with the economic globalization, digitalization and accelerating urbanization, traditional techniques of urban system planning are becoming more and more difficult to meet the actual demands. Since GIS has many advantages over softwares as CAD and MIS in aspects of planning material and data management, assistant decision-making, and the expression of the results of planning, it becomes a powerful tool for planners to cope with the new challenges in urban system planning. Taking Fujian Coastal Zone as example, the thesis analyzes its present structure and draws up the development policy for its future urban system supported by GIS. Firstly, with ArcView 3.3 and Maplnfo 7.0, and by way of overlaying and buffering, it is discovered that cities and towns in coastal zone are denser than those in mountainous area, especially in the narrow zone around the Fu-Xia highway. Secondly, combining altitude, traffic location of each cities and towns got through GIS and other statistic data, the thesis evaluates the development potency of each cities and towns, and based on the evaluation selects the prior cities and towns to develop with the aid of GIS integrated with other mathematic models. At last, by means of ComGIS MapObjects 2.1 of ESRI and Object-oriented Program Language Visual Basic 6.0 of Microsoft, this thesis programs the Manager Information System for Fujian Coastal Zone Urban System (MIS-FJCZUS), which integrates the application of GIS in urban system planning with the digitalization of urbansystem planning management, combing the basic GIS functions and the common urban system model together, and providing a powerful tool in the field of urban system planning.