The spatial pattern and landscape of peri-urban regions hasexperienced significant changes over the last several decades. Thedominant agricultural landscape has been replaced by a new kindof rural/urban hybrid landscape, “a partially urbanized country-side” or “a dramatic new species of urbanism” (Davis, 2004). Thisnew type of urbanism is characterized by a great diversity ofintermixed landscapes, including walled residential estates, scat-tered village houses, and the tight intermingling of small-scaleindustries with commercial, residential and agricultural activi-ties (Leaf, 2002). Meanwhile, peri-urbanization is nearly alwaysassociated with problems, for example, lack of planning and infra-structure, degradation of environment, or loss of agricultural land(Willis, 2005).