China’s New Suburban Reality: An Attempt to Systematically Define the Chinese Suburb
China’s New Suburban Reality: An Attempt to Systematically Define the Chinese Suburb
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DOI：
10.1007/978-981-13-0206-0_7
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发表时间：
2018
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5
通讯作者：
Pengfei Li
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作者：
Pengfei Li
在过去的二十年里，中国的城市面貌发生了显著的变化。在许多城市，内城的重建或改造项目导致了大规模的拆迁和流离失所，而郊区的大规模住宅开发项目则占用了以前专门用于农业或工业的土地。这些郊区项目导致农田流失，原村民搬迁，以及中国中产阶级的大规模住房消费。城市再开发和郊区开发这两个并行的过程彻底改变了中国的城市面貌。在过去的二十年里，产生或形成了两种主要类型的城市边缘区：（一）“城乡结合部”、“城乡结合带”或“城乡结合部”;（二）“郊区”。作为中国新城市现实的重要组成部分，这两种类型的郊区提供了两种截然不同的生活方式。本章以这两个城市边缘区为重点，分析中国新郊区现实是如何产生和塑造的，探讨当地人是如何“说”城市边缘的，描绘郊区人是如何在新建的环境中实际生活的。只有将中国新的郊区现实置于历史语境中，我们才能理解中国与西方郊区的根本差异。中国的郊区是中国城市体系的一个组成部分，它不支持（也可能永远不会支持）独立的郊区生活方式。
The Chinese urban landscape has changed remarkably in the last two decades. Inner city redevelopment or renovation projects have resulted in massive demolition and displacement in many cities, while large-scale residential development projects in suburban areas have taken over land formerly utilized exclusively for farming or industry. These suburban projects have led to the loss of farmland, the relocation of former villagers, and massive housing consumption by middle-class Chinese. The two parallel processes of urban redevelopment and suburban development have totally transformed China’s urban landscape. Two main types of urban fringe have been produced or shaped in the last two decades: (i) the “rural–urban conjunction area,” “rural–urban fringe zone,” or “chengxiang jiehebu,” and (ii) the “suburb.” Important parts of China’s new urban reality, these two types of suburb provide two radically different ways of life. This chapter focuses on these two urban fringe areas, analyzes how China’s new suburban reality has been produced and shaped, discusses how local people “speak” about the urban fringe, and depicts how suburbanites actually live in the newly built environment. Only by situating China’s new suburban reality in historical context can we understand the radical difference between suburbia in China and that in the West. China’s suburbia is an integrated part of China’s urban system, which does not (and probably will never) support an independent suburban way of life.