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| A REVIEW ON THE RESEARCH OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RAILWAY STATION AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCUMSTANCES |
| ZHANG Kai, CAO Xiao-shu |
| The School of geography and planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China |
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Abstract On the condition of industrialization, the world rail transport has developed quickly. All kinds of large-scale railway stations have upraised in cities, and the areas where the centre is railway station have formed day by day. Study on regional influences of railway station has been emphasized by both foreign and domestic researchers. In this article the author firstly summarizes the chief aspects of the relationship study, overviews the brief history of railway station's research, mentions the key researchers and main results directly. Meanwhile, the paper in detail introduces and explains the main ideas of overseas scholars research in four aspects:the first one is the models and the spatial configurations in railway station areas from the horizontal and vertical viewpoint; these different parts with different locations, play the different roles in the railway station area; the second one is the research on the characteristics of land use around the railway station area, including the mechanism of the interplay between railway station and the land use; the third part is the relationship between the railway station and regional economy development. The railway station's development not only strengthens the connection in freight passengers and information between local area and other places, but also is good for attracting more people and investment to advance its economic development; the last part is the social influence to the vicinity of railway station, both from good and bad points, to analyze the role of railway station played in peoples' daily life and peoples' living circumstances. Then the paper summarizes and analyzes Chinese scholar's chief research aspects and contents on the relationship between railway station and the neighborhood circumstances. The author also concludes and analyze these idea from four points, which is similar to the last part, but with a little difference. They are the spatial configuration of rail station area, the land use characteristics, the main part of passengers flow-the square of railway station, the relationship between railway station and urban form and internal structure of the city. But this time more attention is paid to Chinese scholar's cases study and the Chinese characteristics. At la st, the author concludes the main idea and key findings of former research, analyzes the difference between foreign research and domestic research, and puts forward some thoughts and advices on the construction and development of railway station areas.
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Received: 22 March 2007
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2007, Vol. 22 
