Research On Self-Organization Of Urban Space Development: A Case Study Of Shenzhen

Architecture Department of Southeast University During 1960s-1970s, the birth of series theories on self-organizing systems development, such as Dissipative Structure Theory, Synergetics, Hypercycle, Catastrophe, Chaotic Theory and Fractal Theory etc, has enriched our understanding of the nature, society and even the universe. To introduce the self-organization theories into the urban system, the author firstly analyzes the urban development systemically and establishes the conception that urban development is self-organizing. To analyze the inner dynamic mechanism of the urban space development in organizational aspect, the author defines the development of urban space as a compound process of both self-organization and organization. By applying the kernel of the self-organization theories to the research of urban space development, the author studies the underlying rules of the urban space development in its process and system aspects and figures out a self-organizing view of it. Taking Shenzhen's urban space development as an example, the author indicates that the rapid space development of Shenzhen city is the effect of the same directional compound of self-organization and organization by overlapping analyses of Shenzhen's real urban space development and its urban planning. Based on the theoretical research and case study and targeting at the problems in our existing master plan system, the author makes suggestions on the reform of master plan system, which lead to the same directional compound of self-organization and organization.