Urban land evolution in Suzhou area: From early 1980S to middle 1990S |
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| Authors: | Hongyang Wang |
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| Institution: | (1) Pacific Asia Research Institute, University of Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK |
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| Abstract: | Firstly the general category and pattern of urban land evolution is theorized on the basis of correlating researches. This
offers a research framework and theoretical reference for the case study in Suzhou area. Then four features of urban land
evolution in Suzhou Area are summarized, including amount, locality structure, function structure and spatial structure. It
is contended that all these features resulted from the developing process that has been followed with specific institutional
transformation of China in this period. And in general economic development and structure shift is the key factor contributing
to urban land evolution. Meanwhile rural demographic urbanization and town residents re-urbanization and landuse institution
reform are other two important underlying causes. In comparison with classical Western model, such urban land evolution happening
in Suzhou area is explicitly distinct due to many ‘abnormal’ characteristics. But it is ‘normal’ according to the underlying
mechanism, which arguably illustrates the invalidity of empirical theoretical model.
This paper is an outcome of Research on Mechanism and Regulation of Economic and Demographic Concentration and Diffusion in
Littoral Urban Agglomeration (No. 49331010) and Research on Urban Spatial Extension and Structure Evolution in Changjiang
Delta (No. 49571028), aided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The author is indebted to Professor Cui Gonghao
for valuable comments. |
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| Keywords: | urban land evolution land evolution feature land evolution mechanism Suzhou area |
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