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作者

Xiaodan Yang;Qingjun Wang;Qinghua Zhou

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.128,P.102668

语言

英文

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作者单位

Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;The Research Institute of New Urbanization and Human Settlement in Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;Xi'an Jianda Institute of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;China Academy of Urban-rural Development & Cultural Heritage, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China;Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;The Research Institute of New Urbanization and Human Settlement in Shaanxi Province, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;Xi'an Jianda Institute of Urban Planning and Design, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China;China Academy of Urban-rural Development & Cultural Heritage, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China;Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China;Department of Civil Engineering, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran;Department of Civil Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran;Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom;School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Renewal and Spatial Optimization Technology, PR China;International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China;Center of Geo-Informatics for Public Security, School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China;Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA;Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, OH, USA;Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium;Department of Economics, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia;KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium;Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia;Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium;Department of Natural Resource Management, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia;Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China;College of Resource and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

摘要

In the context of regional urbanization, large-scale city regions are becoming the main form of human habitats worldwide. However, top-down regional integration policy faces the risk of being ineffective because politics- and economy-oriented city regions are deficient in local culture, regional identity and spatial logic. City regions emphasize a nodal system centred around multiple cities but ignore large rural hinterlands and wild lands, which calls into question their approach to ecological sustainability. In China, traditional settlements are region-based place systems, which are spatially manifested as town-village-field continuums. After undergoing urban-rural dual development in modern times, Chinese society has now entered the stage of ‘urban-rural China’. Based on the above background, this study presents a conceptual framework of ‘regional habitat units' (RHUs) from the perspective of cultural geography and human settlement science. This concept emphasizes three core elements: 1) a hyper-city regional scale; 2) continuous spatial composition of ‘built settlement−semi-built and semi-natural environment−wild nature’; 3) a formation mechanism based on placeness and regional identity. This study shows that RHUs can provide a cultural-geographic analytical framework for regional urbanization in China and the rest of the world, offer an alternative spatial form to future human settlements, and enrich literature on city-regionalism.