On the discordant urban development in Xi’an city

On giving a description of the urban development in Xi’an City proper in recent years, this paper has made a comparison between Xi’an and some other cities in China about the achievements of the urban development. Compared with those other cities, Xi’an falls much behind, though its urban development in recent years has been fast and successful. An analysis to the urban development of Xi’an City has been made to reveal the discordance between the growths of economy and population and the constructions of urban infrastructure, municipal facilities and public services in recent years. The analysis has also unveiled that some urban problems, such as crowded traffic, tight housing, inconvenient living conditions, serious environmental pollution and so on, are not eased or even aggravated by the discordant developments. The causes of the discordant development have been probed into and some “software” suggestions helping to solve those problems have been put forward in the end of the paper.