YE Yumin, GUO Gengquan, ZHANG Lizheng

Keywords： urban fringe; social-spatial perspective; urban-rural dual structure; new dual structure; governance

Abstract：

During China’s rapid urbanization, rural areas in urban fringes have experienced profound social and spatial changes. Exploring their evolution mechanisms and governance strategies is of great significance for the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Drawing on the perspective of Neo-Marxist Social-Spatial Theory, this paper constructs a socialspatial analysis framework for the evolution of rural areas in urban fringe areas of China, and classifies these rural areas into three types: urban villages, “node villages”, and “peripheral villages”. Based on the multi-case analysis of Lirendong Village, Dongsha Village and Zini Village in Panyu District, Guangzhou, it is found that villages in different types of urban fringe areas are always in the process of social construction of space, spatial feedback to society and social reconstruction of space. Under this mechanism of social-spatial inter-construction, the evolution of rural areas in the urban fringe of China is different from the theoretical landscape drawn by Lewis’s dual structure, but rather a interweaving and derivative process between the urban-rural dual structure and the new dual structure. Based on this, we suggest to optimize the governance strategies and promote the integration of the double dual structure in urban fringe areas through deconstructing the social-spatial inter-construction mechanism of the rural areas in urban fringe.

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