在经济全球化、快速城市化及中国社会"大转型"背景下，城市回族社区的传统空间模式及发展路径遭受到前所未有的挑战。城市回族社区空间模式是什么？如何转型？转向何方？路径何在？本项目拟以"城市回族社区"为研究对象，以"郑汴洛呼"城市民族区为典型案例，以"区位-地方-空间-关系-制度"为逻辑框架，采取理论建构、案例解剖及实证分析有机结合的方法, 以"空间模式"分析为主线，以城市回族社区现代转型的"空间区位选择、地方性建构、空间结构"分析为基础，以"关系建构空间过程及演化模式"为核心，以"地方制度文化传统与发展路径选择"为落脚点，探索和提炼城市回族社区现代转型的空间模式及发展路径，进一步推动学科交叉研究和国际学术对话，补充地理学界对回族社区研究的不足，完善"回族社区"研究的理论范式，在"地理透镜"下建构基于中国经验的"回族社区地理"理论，为快速城市化背景下城市少数民族社区的重构及现代转型提供理论依据。

The spatial pattern and traditional development path of urban Hui communities is subjected to the hitherto unknown challenge on the background of economic globalization, and it is also the rapid urbanization and "great transformation" of Chinese society. How can the urban Hui communities transform? Where and what is the path? What is the spatial pattern? This project will take "urban Hui community" as the study object, typical case investigation of "Zheng-Bian-Luo-Hu" urban ethnic districts as the basis, "location - place - space - relation - institution" as the logical framework, combining the methods of theoretical building with case study and empirical analysis, and taking spatial patterns as the common thread, "spatial location choice, relational building and spatial reconstruction, placeness building and spatial structure" as the basis, spatial process and evolution of "relational building" as the core, and "local cultural tradition and development path choice" as the foothold. Furthermore, the project will explore and refine the spatial pattern and development path on the modern transformation of urban Hui communities, promoting interdisciplinary research and international academic dialogue, supplying geography circles on Hui community research, improving the theory paradigm of "Hui community research", constructing the "Hui community geography" theory based on Chinese experience under "geographic lens", and providing the strong theoretical support for the spatial reconstruction and modern transformation of urban minority communities under the background of rapid urbanization.