Abstract:

The macro - assessment is an analysis of the state of intensive use of urban land and its potential tendency on the whole, and it has a non - fungible specialty in the assessment of a good or bad structure of urban land use. It is a basis of medium or micro assessment. The general paradigm of macro - assessment of urban land use is involved in setting up an assessment index system covering spatial arrangement of urban land, degree of utility, use efficiency, etc., discovering the difference in use efficiency of urban land through a comparison of cities, and advancing some approaches and measures in further raising use efficiency of urban land.

Key words: urban land, intensive use, macro - assessment, use efficiency, Baotou City