TITLE:
Analysis of Analytic Hierarchy Process to Build a Cities Evaluation System Based on Smart Growth
AUTHORS:
Mengyue Yang, Yuwei Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Smart Growth, AHP, Evaluation System, Jinchang City
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.5 No.4,
December
12,
2017
ABSTRACT: Smart growth is an urban planning theory that originated in 1990’s, which has
been gradually focused on by researchers. The theory is in coincidence with
China’s strategies that promote urbanization and the transformation of urban
development. The goal of this paper is to apply analytic hierarchy process to
build an evaluation system of cities based on smart growth. After analyzing
the factors that need to be taken into account, we build a hierarchical model
and put different weight on different factors that compose the evaluation system
of cities. Finally, we use smart growth mode for Jinchang city and point
out that the scientific urban planning should be improved in the way of smart
growth. The results of this paper can provide some decision-making references
for relevant departments.