Research On The Space Evolution Of Small Tourism Towns From The View Of Space Production

Space production theory believes that society and space are dialectical and united, which means space is a "tool" and also a "target" to realize. The space, as a tool, is a potent way to drive the social reformation. The space integration and transformation logic should be subject to the social integration and the development transformation logic. The space, as a target, carried intense humanity value and place spirit. Small tourism towns are located in rural areas. Compared with the organized center of a country or a district, it is seldom affected by non-tourism factors, so the research result will be characterized by representativeness and indigenization. This thesis takes the Shuhe of Lijiang as an example and researches the space evolution of this ancient town over the past10years from the view of space production.Generally, the substance space, spiritual space and social space derived from the three aspects including artifact, culture and system. This thesis introduced the space production theory into the research on space evolution of small tourism towns. The founder of space production theory, H Lefebvre constructed the dialectic de triplicate theoretical analytical framework (i.e. three-way dialectic) comprising spatial practice, representations of space and spaces of representation. Hence, this thesis tried to carry out the research by combining the development situation of the small tourism town with the framework.This thesis can be divided into five parts:First part:this thesis first researched the substance space of the small tourism town, carried out a detailed analysis of various changes of the substance elements including overall spatial patterns, boundary, streets and allies, space joints, landmarks and buildings and combine with the special practice to summarize the process, characteristics and phase of each element evolution.Second part:Over the research on space production, we can easily find that the influence of the small tourism town is multiple. The process of the small tourism town evolution had a great impact on local government and developer. By analyzing the behaviors of local government and developer, this thesis found although the political system shaped by special imagery is intangible, it can restrain or promote the activity of capital and market to indirectly exert its influence on substance space production and rethought the "strong" space represented by power and capital.Third part:During the evolution process of small tourism towns, the social group dominated by living space and influenced by space evolution has experienced a remarkable change of living space. This thesis will be carried out by analyzing the space of dwellers and users, roles in the small tourism town and impact on behaviors and space from the aspect of space production of the residents in the small tourism town, their perceptions, replacement of dwellers, expansion of business area and social activity apace.The fourth part:No matter the internal expansion or the external expansion of the space evolution of the small tourism town, they are both undergoing a production and reproduction process. By analyzing the space production, characteristics and impact factor of the small tourism town with the dialectic de triplicate theoretical analytical framework, this thesis found the impact factors of the small tourism town mainly lied on the pursuit for profits, capital, power, policy, tourist activity and project nature and summarized the major impetus is capital from the research on the behaviors local government, developer, residents, transient businessmen and tourists.The fifth part:Based on the research conclusion of the above four parts, this thesis provided theoretical suggestions and guidance to the rational space utilization, creation of the small town feature and the construction of the small tourism town by summarizing the space production result of the small tourism town.