Research On Urban Morphology And Driven Motivation Of Oversea's Chinese Village Area In Guangzhou

The interaction between social space structure development and urban formtransformation in Oversea's Chinese New Village, Guangzhou, and the driven motivation willbe unclosed based on the study of the historical development from1954to2012in thatvillage.This thesis is a case study on specific quarter by applying the Conzenian approach inurban morphology, the people and form analysis in social geography and the mixed land usesuggestion in urban planning. Oversea's Chinese New Village suffered three developmentphases in past58years, formation under Overseas Policy supporting in early period of thefounding of P. R. China, adaptation under commercial concentration intramural after ChineseReform and Opening up Policies and land designation during a planned economy,transformation in properties, function and social space structure during of Reform at a higherstage. After those processes, this village appears to some degree of 'Mixture' of both socialspace structure and urban form, such as the integrated habitation from different strata ofsociety and mixed land use.The introduction about schools, theories and methods in urban morphology, specially theConzenian approach, and about the inhabitation theory for particular community, specially therelated studies about gentrification and enclosed neighborhoods, is shown in chapter1in thisthesis. The methodology in chapter1is led out based on that introduction. There are threephases, formation and stagnation phase from1954to1976, transformation and conflictionphase from1977to1991and replacement and redevelopment phase from1992to2012, fromthe Oversea's Chinese New Village was formed till now. A multi-perspective analysis,including plan analysis for mapping the morphological processes in each phase, dynamicanalysis for appreciating the primary driving forces and social space structure analysis forbridging the morphological change and the driving forces leading to unclose the interactionbetween 'agency' and urban form, is applied for study the village in each phase showed in aindividual chapter from chapter2to chapter4. In chapter5, the morphological developmentrule is abstracted based on the analysis in previous three chapters in order to explore thetransformation processes in this region which is initially established as a low-rise gardenresidential area being composition in the fringe belt. Meanwhile, the driving forces changingthis region are concluded based on analysis of the transforming of development core.Based on the study of urban form, social space structure and driving forces in theOversea's Chinese New Village, some characters can be concluded. Firstly, the village built as low-rise garden residential area is influenced by the concept building the suburb houses inEngland and a case employing western design method. Secondly, the property exchangeprocess is as the major consequence of the transformation of urban form influenced byresidents' socio-economic status based on the property research as a direction in urbanmorphology research and the study combining urban form and social space structure. Finally,according to the growth map of Guangzhou, this village can be a historical conservation areaas a whole with regard to a character as composition of fringe belt. This is not only for itsculture deposit but also for recording the city growth.This study can be treated as solution for the absence of social consideration in traditionalurban form research by employing Conzenian approach combined with social space structuredynamic analysis. The deep-level connection between the function alteration in historicquarter and surrounding circumstances is figured out by historical analysis the object within abigger environment and considering the transformation processes, social space structurechanging and driven motivation, in order to conservation that area as a whole while onlyrestoration some buildings or integration the functions. Fringe belt concept which is animportant research direction in Cozenian approach is employed in this study to produce a newconservation method by considering the object within the urban historical development. Themixed land use suggestion hopefully can be applied in some areas else to develop them.