Research on The Coordinated Relations between Population and Land in the Urbanization Process of Hebei

Urbanization is one of main reasons for world progress and development. In order to understand the urban population size of Hebei as well as land scale development law and status, this paper analyzes the coordinated relationship between urban population and land to guide the future urban development. The time span in this paper is 13 years from 2000 to 2012 and the allometic growth and urban land expansion parameters are adopted to analyze their relationship from the levels of time and space. The results show that Hebei urban system is not perfect and the urban size is small. From vertical perspective, the allometric relationship of the whole province was gradually significant from 2006, and the growth rate of built-up area was significantly higher than that of urban population. From horizontal perspective, the land expansion coefficients of most cities were higher than the reasonable value, the urban population density was low, and land use efficiency had yet to be improved. Classification No.: F2932 Document Code: A