The dynamics of peri-urbanization in the Pearl River Delta: Emerging land use patterns, urban villages and their linkages to global mechanisms

本项目旨在分析珠江三角洲城市边缘和城市间的非正式和正式动态的相互作用。这些地区既不是城市也不是农村。在珠江三角洲，城中村被认为是一个主要的经济、社会和物质形态，在特大城市化进程中发挥催化作用，形成特大城市景观。在项目第一阶段初步成果的基础上，建议继续开展研究活动，重点是过程问题和珠江三角洲西部欠发达地区城中村的作用。我们对项目第二阶段的建议是：a）通过对珠江西岸欠发达城市村庄的深入研究，补充项目第一阶段的经验数据，B）进一步发展转型过程的类型学，c）探索背景变量，如香港公司和政府机构的决策模式，非正规性和区域政策的影响，以及d）创建一个地理信息系统数据库，将地面研究的定性结果与城市景观的中型和大型变化相结合。第二阶段的预期成果包括：（a）完善城市间空间的经济、社会和土地使用变化的变量;（b）界定珠三角普遍存在的非正规经济的具体形式;（c）描述中观层面的进程。

This project aims to analyze the interaction of informal and formal dynamics occurring in peri-urban and inter-urban areas of the Pearl River Delta. These areas constitute locations that are neither urban nor rural. In the case of the Pearl River Delta, Urban Villages are considered as a major economic, social and physical formation playing a catalytic role in the mega-urbanization process and forming a mega-urban landscape. Building on the preliminary results of the project's first phase, it is suggested to continue research activities with an emphasis on process Issues and the role of Urban Villages in the less developed western part of the Pearl River Delta. Our proposal for the project's second phase suggests: a) to complement the empirical data from the project's first phase with in-depth studies on urban villages on the less developed west bank of the Pearl River, b) to further develop the typology of transformation processes, c) to explore context variables such as the decision making patterns of Hong- Kong based firms and government-institutions, the incidence of informality and regional policies, and d) to create a GIS data base for combining the qualitative results of ground research with the medium- and large-scale changes of the urban landscape. Expected results of the second phase include a) a refinement of variables for economic, social and land use changes in the inter-urban space, a) a definition of the specific forms of informality prevailing in the PRD a description of processes on the meso-level.