Implications of a Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Urban Development in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Table 1

Urban land use in Ulaanbaatar for 2001 and 2012 (data from Purevtseren et al. [19] and Myagmartseren et al. [20]).

Land use	% 2001	% 2012	Percentage points change
Residential (total)	33.2	58.7	25.5
Residential (sprawl)	28.2	51.8; whereof 32% ger districts; and 19.8% in green belt	23.6
Infrastructure	5.2	9.4	4.2
Industry	10.0	8.3	−1.7
Service	13.7	6.3	−7.4
Special purpose and others (defense, public land, water buffer, mining, etc.)	6.9	15.1	8.2
Unused and reservation	28.8	10.0	−18.8