- Village Community: A Planning Practice of Local-urbanization in Countryside Areas in Southwestern China   click here to open paper content606 kb
by    Cheng, Shang & Xia, Nankai | 12csbwb@tongji.edu.cn   click here to send an email to the auther(s) of this paper
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“Village community” aims to realize local urbanization, by constructing the
new-style village in the countryside, which still locals in the countryside
areas, but has fulfilled the same functions of the urban communities. As a
result, villagers who live in the village communities are able to lead an
urbanized life.
Abstract
Introduction: In countryside areas in Southwestern China, especially in
Sichuan Province, a large amount of agricultural populations are still
living in the small, dispersed villages, while the rate of urbanization has
exceeded 50%. These villagers are not able to lead the equal quality of
lives as the citizens in Chengdu, the central city in Sichuan Province,
which contains the great number of opportunities of jobs, education,
medical treatment, and the high level infrastructures as sewage factories,
transportations, etc. However, it’s not realistic to push in the villagers
into the city, which has the limited capacity of habitants. To solve this
problem, this paper introduces a typical planning practice in Chengdu,
which is called “village community” (“VC” as below). V.C. aims to realize
local urbanization, by constructing the new-style village in the
countryside, which still locals in the countryside areas, but has fulfilled
the same functions of the urban communities, such as apartments, primary
schools, medical service centers, roads, sewage factories etc. V.C. is also
close to the enterprises, where the villagers work in. As a result,
villagers who live in these V.C. are able to lead an urbanized life. There
are over 1,500 V.C. built in the countryside areas besides Chengdu city,
and over 1,000,000 villagers are already living in. Two typical examples of
V.C. are illustrated, which have the detailed information and planning
illustrations. Material and Methods: This paper also interprets the key
variables to improve the planning of V.C. and step on the local
urbanization in the countryside areas. 169 towns of Chengdu (which has 223
towns in total) are selected to be the sampling units. Defined types of
data of the variables in these towns which contains constructed V.C. has
been collected, including the number of V.C. in the town, the number of
villagers in the V.C., the distance from the town to the central city, the
transportation accessibility of the V.C., the economical level of the town,
the economical level of the villagers in the V.C., the area of the town
center, the access to the enterprises, the capacities of the primary
schools, medical service centers and sewage factories in the V.C.. These
variables are set up as the independent, and the rate of living in the V.C.
(the number of villagers living in V.C. divided by the number of the total
villagers in the town) is set up as the dependent variable. These data are
analyzed by using the statistic methods of Correlation Analysis and
Multiple Regression Analysis, in the SPSS environment. The Results
indicates the weight of each independent variable, which implies the
importance to the V.C. planning. The Conclusion is that the number of the
V.C. and the access to the enterprises are the most important variables to
improve the V.C. planning and step on the local urbanization in the
countryside areas.
Keywords
Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2013: Frontiers of Planning - Evolving and declining models of city planning practice
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