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| AN INSIGHT OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL PLANNING AND THE KEY OF ITS APPLYING |
| DONG Jin-she1, WANG Xiao-jun2 |
1. Beijing JinsheZhihai Real Estate Investment Consultant Ltd, Beijing 100100, China;
2. City Development College of the Jinan University, Jinan 250002, China |
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Abstract The innovation and creative thinking in theory and applied geography and concerning education is a must in order to meet the need of the transformation of our national development style. In undergoing geography practice, a great mount of cases indicate us that "planning process" is becoming more important in applied geography to make geographic elements valuable. So a systemic and comprehensive theory of applied geography should be established so as to satisfy the market economy needs in particular.
The concept of "geographic planning"should be explored further. It's a cross concept between geography and planning, and regarded as a progress of discovering, exploring, enhancing and realizing the value of geographic elements by means of planner's innovative thinking and elements integration. The "value" includes not only what can be calculated by money, but also what is meaningful to people's life (aesthetical, memorable, etc.). Geographical planning concerns not only the regional topic, but also the value discovery and creation process of various geographic elements or incidents. The mission of "geographic planning" is to promote geographic construction that can be great helpful to national economic, social and environmental development. Several examples of geographic planning {Taishan foundation stone, development model of Qingfeng lake in Dongying, Shandong province, and weather brokerage}are explained to increase the understanding of geographic planning.
Innovative thinking is the key to transform the geographical study achievements, knowledge, information, etc. into marketable value. And original innovative thinking is of the highest value. Any innovative thinking in geographic planning is a organic combination of nature and human elements involved in the process of value creation. According to typical example of geographical planning, the basic theoretical frame of geographical planning is set up by means of probing its key elements in order to make it face market more directly. The nature of geographical planning is systemic integration of nature and human geographic element concerned in various region scales. While the integration is, in large part, an intellectual input instead of material ones, and the methods of geographic planning are emphasized. Innovative thinking is the core of intellectual activity and highly exhibition of "locality" in humanism geography sense. The value orientation of geographic elements is the result of innovative thinking. Whatever the geographic planning scheme is, it must be innovative, operational and valuable. At last, the character, process, key step, etc, and concerning geographical planning are explored accordingly to establish a framework to a branch of applied geography.
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Received: 25 November 2006
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2008, Vol. 23 
