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| STUDY ON URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND ITS DYNAMIC MECHANISM IN THE PERIOD OF RAPID URBANIZATION |
| FANG Guo-kun1,2, WANG Yong3, YAO Shi-mou1 |
1. Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, Nanjing 210008, China;
2. The Graduate School of CAS, Beijing 100049, China;
3. College of Territorial and Tourism, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 210008, China |
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Abstract Since earlier 1990's, China has stepped into an important period of rapid urbanization and social structure transition. First, in this paper, the periods of rapid urbanization are classified and its reasons are discussed as industrial structure transition, deepening of marketization, policy regulation and the increase of capital investment. Then, the authors of this paper systematically analyzed the revolution of urban morphology and the change of urban spatial structure in the period of rapid urbanization from the aspects of external expanding and internal structure rebuilding. The dynamic mechanisms of urban morphology in the period of rapid urbanization are comprehensively summarized as follows:industrial structure readjustment leading to the change of land-use structure; old town renovation leading to the improvement of infrastructure and dwelling district relocation; development zone leading to the changing of urban spatial structure from concentric sprawl to axial growing; system innovation leading to urban population growth and social class spatial differentiation; urban administration division leading to the sudden change and the annexing non-homogeneous characteristics of urban morphology; lack of urban planning execution and administration leading to urban random sprawl. The authors in this paper wish the points of view in this article could be beneficial to the urban planning and city construction nowadays in China.
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Received: 25 April 2008
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2009, Vol. 24 
