A Preliminary Study On The Improvement Of City Village In Beijing

Many City Diseases emerge during the rapid urbanization, especially in thedeveloping countries today. City Village problem is a kind of City Diseases appeared inmany Chinese mega-cities during the rapid urbanization. Many cities in China has takenthe improvement work for City Village to solve the problem. In course of thepreparation for2008Olympic Games, Beijing removed a mass of City Villages aroundOlympic Venues and in the Forth Ring Road. And then, Beijing proposed to improvethe status of50City Villages again after the Olympic Games. The work is successful insome aspects, but it is still facing some difficulties. The study on the improvement ofCity Village in Beijing is significant for solving City Village problem in the right way,achieving the sustainable urbanization of rural area in the periphery of Beijing and otherChinese mega-cities, and improving some social problems such as Urban Poverty,Social Stratification and Urban Divide.By literature research, field investigation and practical work, the thesisfocuses on the following five aspects: the object, the policy, difficulties inimplementation, failure of improvement work and system condition. Based onthe above, the thesis addressed the problems that new improvement work of CityVillage in Beijing has to face and solve, and their causes. At the same time, thethesis studied the relative experiences from the foreign counties and otherChines mega-cities, and then gave some suggestions for the improvement ofCity Village in Beijing and in China.The thesis comes to following conclusions:1) In the improvement of CityVillage in Beijing, City Village is negative and ignored for its advantages.2)The improvement agreed that 'improvement' is equal to 'clearance'. Such aguiding ideology is the main cause for difficulties in implementation.3) Newimprovement of City Village in Beijing will face more complex problemsincluding City Village problems, difficulties in implementation of the existingimprovement work, failure of the existing improvement work and the systemembarrassment that can not be broken through recently.4) Focusing on both theexisting City Village and preventing the new ones, setting scientific standards, planning as a whole, these are the useful experiences from the improvement ofslums in foreign counties and helpful for us, too.5) New improvement of CityVillage in Beijing needs positive work from both Beijing government andCentral government.