The Patterns And Strategies Of Urban Village Renewal In Downtown Of Changzhou City

“Urban village” is a special phenomenon in China during the process of urbanization,and it will produce a lot of problems such as environmental pollution,management dispute and social economic challenges.Solving these problems is an indispensable part of the new pattern of urban-rural integration and also an important manifestation of the proper handling and protection of the legitimate interests of the villagers.Consequently,the task to study on the renovation of “village inside a city” is directly related to people’s livelihood and social stability.At the same time,along with the growing shortage of land resources,the bottleneck of land availability has restricted the development of cities.It is one of the current focus of urban management to ensure land supply and development space through promoting the renovation of “village inside a city”.Taking villages inside the downtown area of Changzhou as an example,the research refers to the advanced theoretical and empirical studies home and abroad,and tries to draw an inclusive conclusion of the related researches systematically.Focusing on t he renovation work,it adopts the method of combining the “point” and the “area”----the “point’ refers to the individual villages and the “area” refers to the entity of all the villages in the urbanized area of Changzhou,to form an overall analysis on the development of villages in the downtown area.Through analyzing the “urban villages”formation and evolvement,current development background,and problems in social,economic and management systems,it clarifies the difficulties of policy guarantee,management system,perceptions of the flowing population and residents,land issue and interest coordination in the process of renovation.A ccording to different intensity of renovation and relating the advanced experiences of other cities to the practice of Changzhou,the study proposes four renewal modes----dismantling and reconstruction,comprehensive improvement,cultural conservation and flexible response.It also discusses the pros and cons of each mode,and composes combinations of renewal modes in appliance to renewal subjects.The renewal of “urban villages” doesn’t take place independently.The choice of renovation mode is made upon t wo aspects of consideration.The first is the urban development and the land use renewal in the surrounding areas,the external factor and also the urge to ensure the renovation.The second is the “urban villages”’ own needs for renovation,or the internal factor,which is the inside drive to prompt their renewal.Through the multi-factor analysis,the study chooses eight major factors for study focus----the external factors of urban circular layers,roads,overall planning plots,low-lying and easily flooding areas,transportation stops and areas of historical and cultural values,as well as the internal factors of plot ratio and “urban village” types.In this way,it proposes the correspondent renovation mode,to reach a scheme of “one policy for one village with adaptive measures for local conditions”.Meanwhile,it introduces the idea of “double urban restoration”,and suggests for urban rebuild to improve the civil facilities and upgrade the public services,explore and protect the historical and cultural resources of the villages.At last,it further claims the measures for “urban village” renovation.The renovation of “urban villages” involves various areas of work in land use policies,property systems,planning and construction,relocation and resettlement,and social security,constituting an arduous task.Based on the analysis of problems and difficulties in the “urban village” renewal of Changzhou city,the research suggests measures in material environment improvement,social environment upgrading and renovation mechanism perfection,and advocates fourteen concrete actions of integrating land sources,assorting industrial structure,expediting the construction of welfare housing,and consolidating the capital insurance,to push forward the “urban village” renewal in Changzhou,and also to offer reference to the present renovation work of “urban villages”.