Study On The Change Of Rural Landscape In Urbanization Process

Rural landscape, which fuses tightly with nature environment and culture, possesses of five attributes: ecological, economical, aesthetic, recreational and space values. Though the nature is the basal part of rural landscape, human action is the dominant aspect. There are less human interferer, low population density and more extensive land using in the rural landscape than in urban landscape. And expansive agricultural scenery and pastoral life are the extrusive difference between them. During Chinese urbanization development, more and more rural redundant labors have engaged industrial and service vocation, which motivating economy increase rapidly, driving social progress, accelerating culture and landscape change quickly in the rural area. But up to the present, Chinese rural scholars have taken more attention on urbanization, settlements, economy and planning. Only few researchers have studied rural landscape primarily. Following the upsurge of Landscape Ecology research nearly years, many scholars have cognizance of the essentiality of rural landscape. So, the author chooses the change of rural landscape as study object in southern Jiangsu province where is prospering and developing rapidly since 1980s.The paper is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is the base portion which inducts out the topic and framework of the paper, retrospects and appraises the development of rural landscape research in the world and brings forward the theoretic bedrock. The second part is primary content which discusses respectively the change of settlements, economy and living in the rural area along with urbanization. Before expatiates the change of rural settlements, the author introduces the types and space combination of settlements in southern Jiangsu province. Then the writer analyzes the change of the size, the form, the distribution of town, village and rural house respectively in order to find out the law. The change of rural economy landscape mostly embodies on the structure, scope and spatial location. The author mainly analyzes agriculture, rural industry and trade landscape. Income increase is the precondition of living amelioration. So before discussing the change of rural living landscape, the author analyzes the level and framework of peasant income recently, and then studies the change of substance consumption, behavior and notion of the peasant. Finally the writer analyzes the change of the rural landscape pattern adopting path-corridor-matrix pattern which Forman put forward in 1995, and chooses three towns in Yixing County as example discussing the difference process of the change and the direction of development respectively. Through the front analysis, the third part is the discussion how building new rural landscape that is picturesque, pleasing and wealthy in southern Jiangsu province facing the opportunity and challenge.Based on the analyses the change of rural landscape in southern Jiangsu province, the main conclusion of the paper as follow: (1)rural population moving...