Fan Jiahui, Paola Viganò

Keywords： Urban-Rural Integration; Urban-Rural Relations; Rural Planning; Spatial Planning; Switzerland

Abstract：

In the urbanization process in the developed countries, it is common that cities expand outwards, and urban and rural hinterlands are increasingly integrated in various ways. Taking Switzerland as an example, we explore its characteristics of urban-rural integrated development and its rural planning experience from the perspective of urbanrural integration. First, we clarify the concept of urban-rural integration in Switzerland and identify its characteristics in terms of population mobility, spatial pattern, functional correlation, and social development; then, combined with the evolution of spatial planning, we summarize the urban-rural integrated development experiences from the perspectives of decentralized planning concepts, coordinated functions, equally complete facilities, and cross-border organizations. The connotation of urban-rural integrated development lies in the fact that urban and rural areas each have core economic functions and maintain their distinctive characteristics, have close spatial connections and two-way flows of the population with the support of a complete network of basic service facilities, truly achieving a state of division of labour, maintaining characteristics and interdependence.

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