Research On Sustainable Development Of New Urban Areas Based On Ecological Footprint

Sports New City of Dalian is a well-built functional development region. The new citywhich has become the core zone based on sports facilities is built in the opportunity of hostingsporting events and constructs large scale stadiums. The region is located in the transitionzone between urban areas and rural and there is a lot of urban and rural resource which hasgradient variation and complex environment. Because of the special geographical location andfunction and on the road to development, this district is very worth to study on and veryurgent.Sustainable development is the key goal of socio-economic development at the presentstage in our country. It is of great practical significance for the sports new city to achieve thisgoal. Based on the method of ecological footprint and energy, this paper evaluates the fulllife-cycle of central sports halls' construction and operation situation. Furthermore,comprehensive assessment of the sustainable development level is done to the relative cityarea in recent10years under the view of rural-urban balance. The main conclusions are asfollows:1. The development of Sports New City area from2003to2012lies in three stages,namely the stage of steady rise, stagnation and rapidly rising phase. The rapid rise stagestarting from2008and the construction of New City Planning are very closely related. Thestate index has not changed much in the last5years. There has been, since2007, showed anupward trend, when Sports New City start planning and building to the pulling of theprovision of personnel, funds and industries, and formed part of the attraction. Driving forceindex showed volatility, is also on the rise in recent years. Response indicators have been asteady increase state during the last10years.2. Sports Center operation is in a state of ecological deficit throughout their life cycle. Itneeds to operate at least54years to make up for the construction and maintenance of theiroperational consumption of natural resources; Using a combination of ancillary landdevelopment and its own operating revenue model, Sports Centre is in the state of ecologicalsurplus during the full life-cycle and it would take25years to compensate for the depletionwith normal operations. The latter programmer is an essential mode to the sustainabledevelopment of Sports Center project exploration.3. Dalian City Sports Center runs well currently.. Consumers' touristic ecologicalfootprint, of transportation (T), catering (C), accommodation (A) and tour entertainment (E)are respectively276111.31hm2?25774.76hm2?2150.66hm2and350.28hm2, among whichthe ecological footprint of ‘T' is as high as90.71%whilst the sum of the others is even lowerthan10%. This finding is consistent with Xi, Jianchao et. al4. Based on SWOT method, this paper analyze the future sustainable development ofDalian Sports City and, the results show: The opportunities for development of Sports New City lies in the development of policies, develop resources (human resources, financialresources, location, etc) and the challenge are the weak natural environment, the sick basicconditions, little successful experiences about the development of Sports New City and so on.