Build up circular city planning index with EAM

Abstract

This study is aimed to build up a structure of circular city planning index with Essential Analysis Model (EAM). As countries around the world are engaged in finding solutions against increasingly exhausting resources and energies, the circular city is trending the metro development in future. This mandates a structure for index in circular city planning in future. To ensure the practice of the structure, it is to be based on circular economy and derived by "target oriented" essence logic. This study employs semi-structured exert interview to get professional inputs from more comprehensive population. A hierarchical structure of 18 major and 53 minor indexes is set up with the help of mind map software which may be referenced by government agencies, metro governance, urban and rural planning, and relevant competent authority in their circular city planning endeavor.