在经济社会转型和进入新常态的背景下，以往重数量、规模扩张和经济效益的快速城镇化模式引发的许多空间不公正问题开始突显出来，如何实现土地资源配置、空间发展权利等方面的公平，亟需用空间正义的理论思维去反思和重构中国的城镇化发展模式。空间正义理论具有社会空间、多尺度性、批判建构三个主要特征，它们对城镇化研究和实践产生重要影响。西方地理学界对空间正义已有较充分的理论讨论，实践案例亦很丰富，国内还处在初步了解和探索的阶段，缺少适合中国体制和社会发展需求的理论。本项目通过对空间正义思想与理论的梳理，运用文本解构、大数据技术、质性研究、空间统计学和多智能体模拟分析方法，进行多尺度、多主体综合分析和案例比较，探讨和总结基于空间正义的中国城镇化演化机理与发展模式，揭示城镇化响应空间正义的过程和机制，将其用于城乡发展与规划，为城镇化研究提供新视角，并引导城镇化转型，实现我国经济社会及城乡的常态发展。

The recent pattern of China’s rapid urbanization characterized by an increasing size and scale of cities is causing serious problems of spatial inequality and injustice. It is time for Chinese scholars to study these urban spatial inequalities and injustices. In Anglo-American geography, concepts and empirical studies of urban spatial justice are well developed. In China, though, that same kind of work has only just begun. Theories of urban spatial justice have three features: they emphasize the socio-spatial dialectic, the multi-scalar, and they provide a critique. Following these same methodologies of spatial justice, this project aims to explore the evolving mechanisms and developmental forms of China’s urbanization. Informed by the socio-spatial dialectic, this project first selects some typical cases at a range of different spatial scales. Then, making use of qualitative, multi-scalar and multi-agent methods, it uncovers the evolving mechanism of China’s urbanization, looking for those ameliorative pathways that lead to the fulfillment of urban spatial justice. Realizing such an end will also improve rural-urban planning and meet the goal of Chinese urban justice.