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| RESIDENTS' COGNITION AND UTILIZATION OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACE IN NEW TYPE URBANIZED AREA——A Case Study of Tianjin Economic-technological Development Area |
| LONG Tao1, CHAI Yan-Wei1, XIN Jun2, MA Mei3 |
1. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2. Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute, Shanghai 200040, China;
3. Construction and Development Bureau, Tianjin Economic-technological Development Area, Tianjin 300457, China |
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Abstract With the expansion of the metropolitan area, a new type urbanized area emerged in a way totally different from the traditional urban form. This kind of place is always sited in the edge of big cities, diffusing the population and industry of the central city. The emergence of such new type urbanized area has greatly changed the territorial spatial structure of the big city, and quickly become an important way of urbanization and urban space outspreading in China.
The industry exploitation oriented‘new town’is an important format of new type urbanized area, which includes Economic-technological Development Area and Industrial Park, etc. This kind of area often relyed on the mother city or neighbor town to solve its living and habitation problem. Recently, in the background of upgrading the comprehensive competence, the living service function of this kind of area was greatly improved. However, such great investment did not achieve corresponding economic and social benefits. Thus, the relationship between the residents and the urban public place in this new type urbanized area, as well as the impact of the construction of urban public space, needed to be discuss in detail.
Based on the questionnaire of residents on community development in Tianjin Economic-technological Development Area, the authors analyzed the characteristics of residents' cognition and utilization of urban public space in such new type urbanized area, as well as its impact factors.
The results were concluded as follows: First, the residents' cognition and utilization ratio of each urban public space is very high compared with the former research held in the big cities. Second, In the same type of public space, the residents has a higher cognition and utilization degree of the high-rank commercial center and the big-size cultural-gymnastic infrastructure, as well as the city square and park. Third, the residents' cognition and utilization of the urban public space is influenced by the some factors. At last, the prospect of this kind of research is pointed out, both in the aspect of the content and the methodology.
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Received: 29 May 2007
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2008, Vol. 23 
