| Urban residential space is an important part of urban social space. It is a vital issue,theoretically and practically, to the urban society not only of the developed countries, but also ofdeveloping countries including China to maintain social equity and avoid social segregation. This thesis focus on the issue of "configuration and evolution in urban residential space" withits motif as follows: whatever phase a city is on urban space is both a "geographical space" and"social space" with the former to be exterior formation and the latter essentialness, which impartthe differentiation of residential space to be incarnate of social stratum indicating human relationand that of social group as well, hence engender the "geo-social dialectic". With its line of sight on spatial redistribution this thesis, annualizing and inducing urbanresidential model, have several main parts as follows: The first part, including chapter 1 to chapter 2, subjects to the theoretical analysis. Firstlyintroducing the modern theories on urban residential space; secondly, the concept and delimitationof urban, space and residential space etc, putting forwards that the urban residential range isdifferent between developed and developing countries, and the relation of "center city" andsuburbs is also different; thirdly, the ecological factors affecting urban residential configurationwhich are "population", "urbanization stage", "employment structure", "environment", "traffictechnology", "social psychology", "culture", and "state policy" which has its own role in differenthistorical time; lastly, the differentiation in mechanism between Western countries and China. The second part, namely chapter 5, is the part of residential differentiation characteristics andmode of "pre-industrial city". Firstly, the differentiation in residential space manifests itselfbetween serf and the lord in terms of housing quality, size, and comfort which results in "mixed "residential configuration mode in geo-space. Secondly, The residential configuration of the"pre-industrial" cities especially those of "middle ages ", impart their complex structure of"mosaic" in three different levels: firstly, the traditional human residential configuration modelsuggested by Gideon Sjoberg in which with the aristocrat living in city center, the impoverished inthe edge of city, the social-economic status decrease stepwise from city center to fringe; Secondly,based on the first level mentioned above there superimposed the residential sub-areas of the sametrade with the vital mechanism of their guild respectively; Thirdly, there derived a residentialformation model of vertical section in which "household " constitutes the fundamental units whichhaving the "production" and "living" in the same roof. As for the pre-industrial Chinese citiesespecially those of the Capital, there are signification in their individuality: the traditionalresidential formation reflects the highly consolidation amongst imperial power, feudal ethic, andgeo-space. The third part, namely chapter 6, is the part of residential differentiation characteristics andmode of modern western society. After the "Industrial Revolution", due to the substitution of both"guild" and "household" with "factory system" as the major element, the urban residentialconfiguration transformed fundamentally with the newly style of surrounding the factoryresidentially. In the early industrial city, the differentiation of the urban residential configurationcontinued to be in the lines of traditional mode of Gideon Sjoberg's and to a rather limited extentwithin the "central city". In the mature industrial city, suburbs have a full shape engenderingBurgess' modern residential model in which the rich living in the suburbs and the majority of themiddle class living in the "center city". In the "mature" stage of industrial city, commutingsuburbs take their forms which engenders the enlargement of residential segregation in the waysof the minority rich living in outer suburbs, the majority...
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