The Research On Spatial Form And Developmental Pattern Of Kunming's Urban Fringe Area

Today , the research on fringe area of big cities' which began in early 1970's have become one of major subjects in the urban science. Recently, with mini-town developed and constructed rapidly in china, a lot of achievements have being gotten on urbanization and city-town system, but the research on urban fringe area is just start in China.Since the reform and opening up in China , the urban's attraction to outside area continue increasing because the gathering of industry, occupation and third industry in big cities, just like what is happening in other developing countries. The urban fringe area have become the emphatic district in which Chinese big cities develop, expand and spread .Just because of this, these areas changing most, developing most quickly , have most problems and have most sensibility , and urban fringe area is also the key field of city's future development. At the same time, the traditional city-rural divide method is not fit for the demand of urban fringe area's planning, construction, administration and research, and it is time to strengthen the research on urban fringe area now.As the capital of Yunnan province, KunMing is one of the center-cities in south-west area , and one of the 24 cities which was permitted to be famous history-culture city firstly, and it is important touring and trading city. After 50 years developing, Knuming's area has increased from 7.8 to 116.9 and population has increased from 803000 to 1169000. Knuming's society and economy developed Very fast especially in 1990's and tHe city's population, economy, estate target beyond the plan for 2000 all. Kunming city's fringe area develop very fast, but it short of theoretic and basic research now ,and it is the motive I write this article.This article comprehensive applied urban planning theory, urban geography and urban economics , to introduce the background, significance, dividing theory, content and characteristic of urban fringe area.(Chapter 1 and Chapter 2). From the third chapter, this article through the on-the-spot investigation andcollecting information in Kunming city, to do some initial structural analysis and theoretic research on Kunming's fringe area , and it made up of the summary of this area's formative process(Chapter 3); the dividing of Kunming' fringe area and analysis constituent factors of this area(Chapter 4); the research of this area's space evolution's regularity(Chapter 5); In the end, this article also explored Kunming's urbanizational mode and the sustainable development pattern of fringe area in the future by the illumination of several biggest cities' fringe area developmental pattern in Chinese most flourishing region(Chapter 6).