本项目旨在从地价角度入手，探索城市地理学的研究方法。本项目综合运用地理学、经济学和历史学等多学科理论与方法，以1843-1943年上海租界地区为范围，考察上海在城市化过程中“宗地”尺度的地价时空变化规律及其驱动因子。其内容包括：（1）以道契和地籍为核心，运用GIS创建“地价”时间（数量、性质等）与空间（位置、边界等）序列，复原地价时空演变的动态过程，并揭示其基本特征及规律；（2）运用GIS和空间模型的方法，探讨地价周期性波动规律、空间自相关（集聚、扩散）及空间分异（区域、用地类型的差异）规律；（3）分析城市化背景下基于宗地的内部因素（区位、土地类型和土地利用方式）和外部因素（制度、经济和社会）对地价时空变化的作用和影响。本课题对于深刻理解长时段宗地尺度的中国城市地价时空变化过程与规律具有重要学术价值。本课题还可为当下相关职能部门制定城市可持续发展策略及城市地价管理方案的设计提供理论依据。

The project aims to expland the field of Urban Geography,and to explore its new methodologies from the research of land prices. Integrated the methodologies of geography, economics, history and other disciplinaries, the project takes the area of Shanghai foreign Settlements from 1843 to 1943 as the research object and its scope, to reconstruct the spatial-temporal dynamic evolution of land price and to explore its driving factors. The main content of the project are as follows:(1) based on the source of land deeds and cadasters (maps and terriers) of different periods, the project employs GIS to build the database of land price whose fields are time, landowners, area, boundary, land value, land price, etc, and to reconstruct the spatial-temporal dynamic evolution of land price and analyses its basic characters and laws;(2) the projet uses the GIS and related spatial mathematical models to examine the law of periodic fluctuations of land price, spatial autocorrelation laws(diffuse, agglomeration), spatial differentiation laws(region and land types differences)of land price;(3)the projet examines how the influences resulted from the internal factors(location,land type and land use) and extrinsic factors(institution,economic development and social cultuel)of land parcels, and to reveal the driving mechanism of the land price spatial-temporal changes. As an important case study, the project helps to understand the characters of spatial-temporal evolution of urban land price of Chinese modern cities from the angle of land parcel for a period of 100 years, and hopes to provide the historical experiences and theoretical references for the government to make the land policy for the city sustainable development of Shanghai.