The Residential Differentiation Of Hangzhou’s Urban Areas

As the main representation of urban social space,residential space differentiation becomes the main object for research with the dramatic changes of the urban social space in the transformation and expansion of the cities.The thesis is based on the Socio-spatial theory.Based on the social-spatial theory,the fifth and the sixth national census data are used and each resident community and town in the major city is used as a unit to classify.After analyzing the data,the conclusion can be made that differentiation did exist in Hangzhou in 2000 and 2010.Through further investigation,the point above was confirmed.During the past decade,transformation existed in not only the factors of social space differentiation,but also the structure and model of residential spaces.The main factors of social residential differentiation in 2000 include the population of foreign workers,the intellectual stratum,the retired and unemployed,and the peasant population.Based on the factors,the major city can be divided into seven districts,which are new residential area,urban village,development zone,white-collar concentrated residential area,floating-population concentrated residential area,retired employees concentrated residential area and farmers concentrated residential area.The main factors of social space differentiation in 2010 include occupation status and levels of education,the migrant population,the retired and unemployed,and the peasant population.The major city can also divided into six districts due to the factors:economic development center,the different main central districts,the reconstruction area of the old town,floating population concentrated residential area and retired employees concentrated residential area.The spatial structure of the major city in 2000 is simpler comparatively.It formed a centralized spatial pattern,whose shape is rather like a circle and a sector,while the spatial structure of the major city in 2010 is more complicated,the urban area is more likely to expand,and then develop into suburbanized spatial pattern,whose shape is concentric circles,sectors and exhibits a multi-core pattern.Based on this conclusion,the formation mechanism is explained in three dimensions:the macroscopic policy and environment of national and local government,natural and history background and the city development planning,and changes of individual differences and the concept of city residents.