Suburban Land Development and Rural-Urban Integration

Dear Colleagues,

In the context of urbanization and rural revitalization, the enhancement of the interaction between urban and rural areas will change the evolution mechanism of the rural-urban integration system and promote the profound transformation of rural-urban relations. In this context, the scientific meaning of the rural-urban integration system must be interpreted and its structural characteristics and operating mechanism must be analyzed; in addition, a clear understanding of the objective dynamic mechanism and the internal mechanism that drive the development of rural-urban integration must be obtained. Suburbs are located in the transitional zone between urban construction areas and agricultural land. They have characteristics that are different from urban and rural areas in terms of their social economy, population structure, land use and landscape function. Their transitional performance is represented by the transformation of land use from a single function to a multiple composite function. The transformation of suburban land use affects the allocation and optimization of land use functions and the operation of the land system, thus influencing the allocation of rural-urban elements, rural-urban regional structure and rural-urban development functions and affecting the process of rural-urban integration and development. Considering this, in this Special Issue, we hope to discuss how the development of suburban land can better promote the development of rural-urban integration.

This Special Issue aims to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) that provide insights into “Suburban Land Development and Rural-Urban Integration”.

The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Response of suburban land development to rural-urban integration;
• Change of land–use functions in suburban land;
• Evaluation of sustainable land use in suburban areas;
• Driving factors and paths leading to the development of urban-rural integration;
• Analysis of the operation mechanism of the rural-urban integration system.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Yanwei Zhang
Dr. Kaifeng Duan
Dr. Maomao Zhang
Guest Editors

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• suburban land development
• rural–urban integration
• land use transition
• sustainable land use and management
• rural revitalization