从国内和国外两条线回顾城中村相关研究进展。在国内研究综述方面,分别从对城中村现象的认识、城中村形成机制、城中村改造及发展建议三个方面概括各阶段学术界对城中村问题的研究成果;而在国外研究综述方面,按照自助型居住区研究、城中村流动人口居住研究、及城中村土地利用研究三个主题进行文献综述。通过回顾现有研究成果,指出基于城市地理学理论的城中村研究,在理论支撑方面需建立明确和多样的理论体系,在研究内容方面应选择更深层次的议题,在研究方法方面应加强定量研究方法的应用。

Rapid economic growth in China leads to a large influx of migrants in cities and a continuous urban expansion. In order to save financial and administrative cost, urban authority prefers to choose farmland for urban development rather than the urban villages. As a result, villages on urban-rural fringes have been gradually surrounded by urban landscape and become urban villages. As a new type of urban landscape, issues on urban village attract many scholars' interest. This paper gives a comprehensive literature review on urban village and explores the current research problems and shortages from the perspective of research theoretical basis, research topic and research methods. As a specific phenomenon along with China's rapid urbanization, a majority of study productions are made in China. Until recently, scholars overseas begin to give their interest on this topic. Research on urban village started since the end of 1980s from describing the concept, features and forming mechanism, to analyzing some deeper academic topics. This paper does the literature review from the national and international aspects. Research in national academe can be classified to three topics:understanding, forming mechanism and renewal. Scholars overseas hold different research visual angle on urban village. They usually focus on self-help housing, floating population and land use. Through the review of current literatures, there are several problems and shortages which need to be improved in further research. Firstly, a specific and strong theoretical system should be built to give an important research foundation. From the perspective of urban geography, using the research system of urban social geography is very necessary to coordinate the numerous topics and guide the research development along with a canonical path. Secondly, current research should be deepened with choosing more fresh and profound topics, such as exploring different factors' effects and their relationships in driving urban village's development, theoretical evaluation of urban village's objectivity, and urban village's roles in urban special structure. Thirdly, more mathematic methods which depend on great statistical and survey data should be used in further researches.