Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Guangzhou City'

The study on urban morphology has been widely developed in Western countries especially in Europe and America after the mid-20th century. The urban morphology of a place has a corollary of the urban form which encompasses urban planning, building fabric and land utilization pattern. The evolutionary process of urban morphology, otherwise known as urban form or urban landscape, appears to be unique in many other countries, including East Asia. However, there has been little attention paid with systematic method on the study of Chinese cities adopting this cross-disciplinary approach. This study attempts to investigate the urban morphology of Guangzhou by looking into the interrelationship between urban fabric and building typology, as well as their changing pattern in the historical context. Guangzhou was the Chinese city where the first large-scale urban re-structuring attempt was made by the Nationalist Government to transform it from a pre-modern, walled city into a modern metropolis in the early twentieth century. The complexities and dynamics associated with the growth of the city are valuable information for reviewing the theories and improving our level of understanding on urban morphology. Based on the review of literature, a theoretical framework, urban form as an outcome of the urbanization process with an emphasis on building typology and urban fabric, was established in this thesis. Within the framework, the concepts and methods of morphological analysis are adopted to analyze the physical aspects of the city at both micro and macro scales. By examining the transformation of the traditional residential building types, five selected prototypes are investigated and their corresponding evolutionary process as components of urban fabric is analyzed. Morphological analysis on urban fabric was made through the comparison on four urban districts of similar background in order to find out the distinctive characteristics for them. On a macroscopic scale, the urban fabric has undergone a transformation in relation to the building use pattern and their forms. Three models in relation to the urban blocks of study in Guangzhou have been established as a reference and consideration when carrying out urban design and planning activities in future. The first model is the linear development of building transformation in urban blocks and the effect simultaneously infiltrating into inner layer parallel to streets. The factor of whether or not the cases which are within the ancient walled city is not a matter in respect of transformation. The second model is the fringe development infiltrating to the core whereas the fringe albeit becoming intact cannot protect the inner core from occurring transformation. The last model is the corner development of urban blocks which has become an increasingly common phenomenon, revealing the significant value to a paradigm of the transformation process.
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Architecture
Master
Master of Philosophy

A just city is what urban planning should be fighting for. In Chinese cities, however, spatial justice has been seriously overlooked in many aspects of urban development. Using the theoretical framework devised with spatial justice theories, urban power structure, and the theories and practices of urban renewal and housing for migrants in developed countries, this dissertation has evaluated the impacts of urban planning and urban policies on the housing for migrant workers. A case study of the redevelopment project of Liede Village in Guangzhou has been conducted to illustrate the scenario. Findings show that the policies and planning have brought together the government, the market, and the village, making them the core of the growth coalition, and marginalizing the migrant workers in the situation of the redevelopment of urban villages in Guangzhou. This alliance, aiming for growth, has helped commoditize the space reproduced during the process. The commoditization of land and housing is driving up the value of the properties. Migrant workers with limited income and rural Hukou status can only move to other villages. While Guangzhou is planning to redevelop nearly all the urban villages within the city core, migrant workers have to migrate to places where is far from the city center to seek for affordable housing, completing a migration pattern from the city center to the edge. It is concluded that the spatial injustice in the problem of the urban villages in Guangzhou has not been solved with the redevelopment. In contrast, it is exacerbated by urban planning and urban policies. A more inclusive, peopleoriented planning approach as well as other institutional changes is required for promoting spatial justice in Chinese cities.
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Urban Planning and Design
Master
Master of Science in Urban Planning

Chinese cities have been experiencing significant growth and profound socioeconomic transition since late 1970’s. Reform and development on institution arrangement for land, which is one of the basic production elements, have been the core issue for the strategies of establishing market economy and urbanization. Land banking was a mechanism initiated in western European cities for directing urban development in early 1900’s. Under this mechanism land is resumed by public authorized organizations and will be held for future use to implement public land use policies. Some Chinese cities began their own land banking operation in the 1990’s. After nearly 20 years of introduction of land banking mechanism to China most of the cities and counties are now practicing this mechanism in their land management and supply framework. This study attempts to explore land banking mechanism and its effects on urban development comprehensively in lights of theories of new institutional economics and urban spatial structure applying the diachronic public policy analytical framework. Guangzhou, the third largest city and the first city to practice land banking mechanism, is taken as the study area. Spatial data for land supply records since introduction of land banking mechanism are collected and processed with GIS software. Archives in Guangzhou Construction Archive covering the land development and planning administration in Guangzhou were studied to facilitate in-depth understanding of the mechanism. Related statistics data, regulations, planning proposals, internal reports and were obtained to facilitate this study. Review on evolution of land banking mechanism in China and comparison of related regulations at state and local levels argue that the introduction of land banking mechanism into China has lead to institutional changes in the land development process by integrating western experience and local characteristics. Applying empirical transaction costs analysis on institutional models of major land supply mechanisms in China, this research illustrated that land banking mechanism has resulted in re-distribution of transaction costs of the land supply process, which reduces the transaction costs from the perspective land use right (LUR) users. However, for a specific case of land supply, overall transaction costs would increase under land banking mechanism compared to other land supply mechanisms. Exploration on data collected through GIS analysis illustrated that land banking mechanism strengthens city government’s capacity to instruct changes in both macro level urban form and micro level built environment. Analysis on statistics data and budgetary reports of Guangzhou Municipal Government demonstrates that with land banking mechanism gains of LUR conveyance are providing supplement income for the city government, which is approximately 30% of the traditional tax-based fiscal income. Financing values of Guangzhou city’s land bank are developed by land banking loans and establishment of the urban development financing platform. Supplement fiscal income and financing values of land banking greatly improve local governments’ leading role in urbanization process mainly through investment on urban infrastructures. Case study on evolution of Liede village under land banking mechanism illustrates that different land development process and changes of urban form have also lead to rearrangement of socio spatial structure such as significant changes in residential spatial changes.
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Urban Planning and Design
Doctoral
Doctor of Philosophy

Background: Nursing professional, up to today, is still women dominated. The consistent medical reform and scarcity of nursing labor force in China contribute to the high workload and work related pressure. On the other hand, family always plays an essential role in women’s life, especially for Chinese women. They are believed to be the principal person to provide family care. Therefore, female nurses always face the challenges in accomplishing the duty from work and family, and also face the difficulties in balancing the work-related role and family-related role. The incompatibility between work-related role and family-related role leads to work-to-family conflict. It is a kind of interrole conflict to which women are especially sensitive. Work-to-family conflict is defined as a type of interrole conflict which occurs as a result that the work related responsibilities interfere with family life. Literatures suggested that there were many aspects are significantly related to work-family conflict, such as the working model, workload, and social support. And work-family conflict was demonstrated to be associated with lower job satisfaction. Objectives: This study mainly aim to explore the relationship between shift work models and self-perceived work-to-family conflict in Chinese female nurses working in Guangzhou city hospitals. Many related aspects are also explored and we in particular focus on the effect of night shift work demand. Furthermore, we aim to detect the association between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction among recruited sample subjects. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted in several Guangzhou city hospitals. Employed female registered nurses were included. Questionnaires were delivered to nurses in hard copy or soft copy, involving categories of working model, working demand, job satisfaction, and work-to-family conflict. 315 questionnaires were delivered and 261 of them were returned with a response rate of approximately 83%. After data cleaning, total 250 valid-responded questionnaires were analyzed finally. Statistical description, subgroup analysis, linear regression analysis, and multivariable linear regression analysis were established for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Results: In this study, family financial responsibility, occupation support from family, overall workload, overtime work, organizational policy support, supervisor support were found to be significantly associated with self-perceived work-to-family conflict. The effects of night shift on work-to-family conflict were different among subject with different demographic characteristic, family role, work role, family-related support, and work-related support. Shift model was found to be significantly associated to work-to-family conflict, and day-night shift was related to higher level of work-to-family conflict. But the relationship between the frequency of night shift and work-to-family conflict was not found through the linear regression model. And it was found that there was a significant negative correlation association between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction, meaning that higher work-to-family conflict was associated with lower job satisfaction among the sample subjects of this study. Among the six items measuring the overall job satisfaction, job autonomy, task requirement, organizational policy, and professional status were found to significantly related to work-to-family conflict level. Conclusions: The association between shift models and work-to-family conflict was confirmed but it was affected by nurses’ demographic characteristic. The frequency of night shift was not found to significantly affect the self-perceived work-to-family conflict level. And there was a significant negative relationship between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction, where higher job satisfaction was associated with lower work-to-family conflict.
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Public Health
Master
Master of Public Health

The development of ‘Affordable housing’ has become an urgent and important topic of discussion in China. Unlike in western countries where the social welfare system has been set up for many years and the public housing system also is mature, in most of Asian countries, the social welfare systems are still weak in relation to their large amount of low-income populations. The gap between rich and poor is considerable large, and is still increasing; many people with low-income could not afford their own houses since the minimum down-payment and the entry-requirement of real estate market are both increasingly high; the ‘Affordable housing’ is therefore very difficult to be developed appropriately under this circumstances. The thesis provides an overview of the development of ‘affordable housing’ around the world, and a brief introduction of the relevant situation in China, in order to find out some applicable policy suggestions for the development of Guangzhou city’s affordable housing market from such previous experiences. Public housing system in U.S. and Sweden has a strength foundation for many decades, while China is a developing country with the largest population in the world, in order to solve the housing problem, Chinese government start to implement public housing policies and establish the ‘public housing system with Chinese style’. The Guangzhou affordable housing policies are based on the Chinese style public housing system, given the similar culture background and economy foundation, Singapore and Hong Kong’s public housing development process has more value for Guangzhou City Government to learn from. Results from questionnaire and analysis are shown for the current housing statu in Guangzhou City, which reflect some realistic housing problems and it takes a long term for householder to achieve down payment and ‘full house ownership’.

This thesis attempts to contribute to the literature on urban public space. It focuses on urban China which is a non-Western social context and also undergoing unprecedented social, economic and cultural transformation since its market-reform in 1978. It suggests that the socio-spatial restructuring of post-reform Chinese cities has opened up new possibilities for examining the complex entanglement of social changes, spatial practices in the public and the reconstitution of social relations. This thesis first uses an ideal-predicament-practice framework to develop an overview of the extant literature on urban public space. It argues that in classic social theories public space is associated with two normative ideals, namely the ideal of political expression and the ideal of unfettered social engagement. However, since the 1970s most studies in Anglophone sociology, geography and urban studies have tended to focus on the decline of the public sphere. This rhetoric of decline is manifested in three major strands of research, namely the decrease of civic participation in public communication, the privatization of public space and the regulation of public space. In this thesis, I argue that this body of literature only presents a partial picture of the ongoing construction of the public realm. While it certainly offers a solidly critical stance in the examination of urban change, it does not need to lead us to the impression that the public sphere is no longer central to our civic and political life. Many studies in this literature suffer from two epistemological problems. First, many of these studies are undergirded by a closed perspective which reifies the binary oppositions of exclusion and inclusion, absence and presence. Being visible in the public is unproblematically seen as socially empowering, while exclusion is considered to reduce the social and political relevance of public space. Second, this body of literature also delineates the public sphere in terms of fixed types of spaces which accommodate fixed uses and produce fixed social and cultural meanings. Which has been dispensed with, as a result, is an epistemologically more open approach which actively locates and analyzes people’s actually existing practices and actions related to the production and construction of competing visions of publicness. Thus I argue that the social and political potentials of public spaces are never determined prior to social members’ active participation in the public realm. Public space is constantly made and remade through engaged practices which produce and construct the social and cultural turfs of space from below. Armed with this perspective, this thesis will use four chapters of empirical research to elucidate the complex socio-spatial dynamics associated with the production and construction of public space. Four stories are narrated in this thesis: 1. The emergence of grassroots leisure class in China’s urban public space and the possibilities which it has created for ordinary people to enact and perform their cultural identities. 2. Gay men’s cruising in Guangzhou’s People’s Park and the ways in which gay men negotiate a self-disciplining subjectivity in relation to their public presence and their “deviant” and “abnormal” cultural identity. 3. The construction of improvised grassroots public and counterpublic in the singing of socialist “Red Songs” and how this collective public culture provides opportunities for the production and reproduction of political identities and political discourses. 4. The regulation of motorcycle taxis and the ways in which visions of public space are intrinsically implicated in the constitution of dominant knowledge, social relations and power structures.

Background: Most of the previous studies about risk factors associated with death in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) were done in western countries and focused on physiological and laboratorial indexes. Some of them had inconsistent results. There were few studies about the epidemiologic profile of mortality and risk factors associated with death in the PICU in China. Compared with other countries, China has different health care policy, insurance system, population, culture, and socioeconomic situation that may affect disease outcomes differently. Some data showed that Chinese PICUs had higher mortality. It is important to know more about the possible factors associated with excess death in PICU in a Chinese setting. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to estimate mortality (incidence proportion of death) in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a tertiary hospital and identify the main risk factors associated with death in PICU. Methods: This was a case-control study. We retrospectively investigated the clinical data of patients who were admitted to the PICU during January 2010 to December 2013 in a tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China. All the dead cases in PICU during the studied period were chosen as cases, and the controls were randomly selected from the patients who were alive when they were discharged from the PICU during the same period. The incidence proportion of death was estimated, and then logistic regression model was carried out to explore the risk factors for death. Results: The overall mortality in this PICU was 6.5% (95% CI 5.6 % - 7.4%) during January 2010 to December 2013. The following factors were found to have significant association with higher risk for death: middle level socioeconomic status (OR 2.51, 95% 1.07 - 5.87) and low level socioeconomic status (OR 5.86, 95% CI 2.32 - 14.77) compared with the high level socioeconomic status; admission from pediatric emergency observation unit (OR 2.08, 95% CI 1.10 - 3.91) compared with admission from transfer system (i.e. other hospital); critical severity of disease (OR 2.62 , 95% CI 1.48 - 4.64), and seriously critical severity of disease (OR 8.41, 95% CI 3.26 - 21.67) compared with non-critical severity of disease ; existence of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (OR 3.64, 95% CI 1.91- 6.91) compared with absence of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; existence of comorbidity (OR 3.14, 95% CI 1.68 - 5.86) compared with absence of comorbidity; infectious disease (OR 2.42, 95% CI 1.07- 5.49), neoplasm (OR 4.53, 95% CI 1.63 - 12.62), neurological disease ( OR 4.21, 95% CI 1.85 - 9.59) and endocrine, immune and nutritional disease (OR 7.56, 95% CI 2.10 - 27.20 ) compared with respiratory disease . Conclusion: Our study was the first one to comprehensively investigate the risk factors for death in PICU of a tertiary hospital in China. We described profile of dead cases, estimated the mortality and investigated the risk factors associated with death in PICU. During January 2010 to December 2013 the mortality in the PICU was found to be 6.5%, and risk factors for higher mortality in PICU included lower level socioeconomic status, admission from the pediatric emergency observation unit, more severe conditions of disease, presence of comorbidity and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and disease categories of infectious diseases, neoplasm, neurological disease, and endocrine, immune and nutritional disease. Our study provided information for developing preventive strategy to reduce the mortality in PICU.
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Public Health
Master
Master of Public Health

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

The aim of the thesis is to describe and evaluate the transformation of urban form in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, with a particular focus on the relations between social processes and spatial forms in the context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth interviews with key practitioners and actors in the regeneration process, this thesis explores three specific relationships and/or processes. -- First, it examines the discursive and structural conditions surrounding the ’’production" of governmental regeneration programmes relating to the urban-villages, within a restructured and increasingly neoliberalized system. I develop the argument that it is through this production that the concept of urban-village is defined and deployed by government to label and problematise places which may not be problematic in the ways defined. Second, this thesis discusses the development and implementation of institutional reform policies that are at the heart of government-led regeneration projects in Guangzhou. As I argue, in seeking to develop a more coordinated approach to urban-village regeneration, local government officials, and other power-brokers, have created new subjects/objects of intervention that are structurally, discursively and deliberately excluded from the dominate discourse of what urban regeneration is or ought to be. Third, I examine local people’s reactions to urban-village regeneration, and I develop the argument that they are not as powerless as has often been suggested by the dominant society. Instead, in exerting control over their lives and actively shaping their relationship to the so-called "dominant society", they are engaging in a variety of strategies and deploying various tactics to resist and/or alter a range of policy decisions.

This thesis explores men’s perceptions and experiences of fathering and fatherhood in China. It is informed by a growing body of theoretical and empirical research regarding fathers and fatherhood and also draws upon research that has made linkages between masculine identities and men’s identities as fathers. However, little research has investigated men’s experiences of fathering and fatherhood in China. Thus, employing the principles of social constructionism and a qualitative research design, this study comprised a total of thirty-one in-depth interviews with Chinese fathers. These men were split into two groups; one group of relatively younger fathers and another group of relatively older fathers. The findings show the complex inter-relationships between fathering and China’s rapidly changing social, economic and political context, including the One Child Policy. The thesis also focuses on aspects of ‘traditional’ fatherhood defined in terms of fathers’ roles as moral guardians, disciplinarians and educators. Finally, the thesis explores aspects of contemporary fathering in China, including the apparent shift to an increasingly involved fathering and the ways in which men reconcile their changing identities as fathers and their identities as men.

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國立政治大學
中國大陸研究英語碩士學程(IMCS)
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the core elements of merging into local society by reducing the prejudice. The following four factors were discussed : (1) equal group status within the situation, (2) intergroup cooperation, (3) common goals, and (4) the support of authorities, law or custom. Then subjects were recruited in the in-depth interviews. They were required do a field research during which the Taiwanese businessmen settled in Guangzhou. From the data analysis, it was discovered that the more good contact experiences Taiwanese Businesspeople have, the easier for them to reduce intergroup prejudice and leads to merge into local society easier in China. The main effected factor was not related to profit – making. Based upon the result of the thesis, if Taiwanese businesspeople lack for such good contact experiences to contact the locals, they would identify themselves as Taiwanese. The main concerns of this dissertation are as following：Would it the possible for Taiwanese to reduce their prejudice toward Chinese through intergroup contacts？And, would the intergroup contacts help Taiwanese immigrants integrate into local community？These two questions are answered.

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國立清華大學
工業工程與工程管理學系碩士在職專班
106
Since the rapid development of business and industry in recent years, Taiwan has created many employment opportunities and a good working environment. Its generous treatment and broad space for development have also attracted many young people who are willing to leave their hometown to come to strange cities and work hard to achieve their dreams. The popularity of higher education in Taiwan, almost all counties and cities have a university, so many young students must leave home to study in the other cities. Since the economic reform and opening up policy in recent years, China govement has set up many economic development zones continuously, it attracts many rural population come here for work. However, due to the limited number of dormitories available at factories or schools, some employees and most students are forced to rent a suite apartment close to factories or schools. Many of the houseowners were ignored many details that should be noticed in the face of rapidly growing rental market. Such as the fire at Jinshan Street near Hsinchu Science Park in December 2014. And also the fire in Zhonghe District,New Taipei City in November 2017. Both of them were illegally builted suites, resulted in many lives being injured. The market of rental suite apaptments were large but the quality are different. It is an important issue that how to make suer the consumer lives safety and comfort under the premise of taking into account the market competitiveness and profit. In order to understand consumer demands for the service quality of rental suite apartment, this study conducted a case study by means of a questionnaire survey on Tainan City, Miaoli County and Guangzhou City. Base on the SERVQUAL construct which announeced by three scholars (Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry), there are 27 service quality elements were developed and converted to suite apartment rental service quality elements. By adopting Kano Model’s positive and negative questionnaire technique design, we are looking forward to find out the attrative quality elements of consumers' hearts and the classification of other service quality factor items. The four-quadrant diagram was drawn by means of quality improvement indicators to identify quality factor items to enhance satisfaction and eliminate dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the suggestions for improvement programs will be provided as a reference to rental industries. Then, using the positive result of Kano's two-dimensional quality questionnaire as the index of importance. The combining with the result of performance questionnaire and index of importance, the four-quadrant diagram of "Importance-Performance Analysis, IPA" were drawn. According to result of IPA, the factors which located within “concentrate here” area should be improved as high priority due to high importance and low satisfactory attributies. The facors which located within “Keep up the Good Work” area are the competitive advantages with high importance and high satisfactory attributies. It should be maintained continuously. Eventually combined with Kano Model and IPA analysis, the priority of improvement activities will be provided as a reference. The results of the study show that there are 13 items of attrative quality elements for all respondents, including "Specified washing machines", "Independent balcony", "Free cable television program and the Internet", "Wet and dry separation shower facilities", and so on. The top three items quality improvement activities are:"Does the landlord(administrator) actually fulfill his promise to customers, such as regular maintenance of drinking fountains, elevators ..."; "Rented suites (buildings) equipped with Fire extinguisher and and Emergency Evacuation Facilities"and" Whether the landlord (administrator) can provide assistance in case of difficulties ". In terms of importance-performance analysis, the best item of satisfaction level is "whether there is a separate Watt-hour meter for renting suite." The rental industries should continue to maintain. The worst item of satisfaction level is "The landlord (administrator) can dispose any incident or accident promptly ", the rental industries should pay attention and improve as soon as possible.

自上世紀90年代以來，中國城市空間伴隨經濟的高速增長不斷擴展，迄今為止已經產生了五個巨型城市，高居世界榜首。遺憾的是，中國傳統城市規劃面對高速增長帶來的城市問題和挑戰捉襟見肘。當前的成果著重基於遙感資料的城市外延式空間拓展研究，而對傳統內城的內延式空間增長缺乏考察，而傳統內城恰恰是聚集經濟和城市問題高度集中的地區。外延式拓展往往是內城聚集經濟外溢的結果，故很大程度上是內城空間強度和密度溢出的外在表現。本人通過大量文獻回顧發現，當前中國城市規劃領域在兩個方面的實證研究幾乎是空白：其一是客觀定量考察內城空間增長現象及其機制，其二是科學評估法定規劃在引導城市增長過程中的空間績效。本文力圖通過廣州實證研究，從空間經濟交互的角度實現上述研究空白領域的突破。
該研究充分挖掘現行城市土地和建設管理資料、勘測地圖和社會經濟統計的空間-經濟資訊並建立海量資料庫，採用GIS 技術和GWR 空間統計方法，對廣州內城垂直空間強度和水準空間密度的增長進行了定量觀察，科學分析了增長現象背後的空間經濟機制，並籍此對廣州城市規劃管理單元控制導則進行了客觀評估。觀察發現，聚集經濟力量始終支配著空間強度和密度的梯級分佈。地方政府土地供應成為刺激空間強度增長的中堅力量，而地方政府財政支援是空間密度增長的核心動力。同時，空間強度的形成對經濟全球化水準顯示出明顯依賴。分析表明，城市規劃干預雖然對空間增長起到明顯作用，但廣州內城的增長規模遠遠超出了規劃預期，規劃自由裁量權成為規劃適應實際增長需求的關鍵手段，由此可見，實際空間強度和密度的增長並不是規劃控制的成果，而是政府與市場博弈的結果。研究認為，城市中心持續聚集並逐漸溢出蔓延有其必然規律，增長雖然無法有效遏制，但可以通過合理的增長管理實現有效的空間組織，其中城市邊緣地區是增長管理的關鍵。值得注意的是，任何一種管理手段都有正面和負面的影響，有效的增長管理必須基於客觀的空間經濟增長機制，並需建立長效的規劃監控和動態管理機制，而定期的現象觀察和空間規劃績效評估應成為核心內容。
該研究強調本國立場，通過設定科學度量方法和建立海量資料庫，對內城空間強度和密度的增長進行了精細觀察和量化分析，並在此基礎上實現了空間規劃績效的客觀評估和科學判斷。這是在我國城市規劃領域的首次嘗試和突破，以期幫助城市規劃和管理者更深入的理解城市增長客觀現象和規律，為中國傳統城市規劃的理念更新和方法創新提供有價值的參考和借鑒，並期待由此引發該領域更深入的思考和探討。
Urban economic growth has hastened urban spatial expansion since the 1990s in China, and five megacities such as Guangzhou emerged by 2011. The evidence indicates that this growth shows few signs of stopping in the foreseeable future. The ontology and epistemology of Chinese-style urban planning are unfortunately overstretched in terms of the challenges resulting from rapid growth. Urban growth studies have focused on the present achievements of spatial expansion to non-urban areas based on remote sensing data while ignoring the maturely urbanized areas emphasized by urban planning. However, both agglomeration economies and serious urban problems are centralized within the downtown area. Urban sprawl to the non-urban area is a physical consequence of agglomeration economy spillover, and is hence a consequence of spatial intensification and densification spillover. Two kinds of studies have been nearly absent in the realm of Chinese urban planning. The first comprises objective observations on spatial intensification and densification growth patterns and mechanisms in urbanized area. The second comprises reviews and evaluations of planning performance in the urban growth process at the day-to-day administrative level based on objective observations and real-world quantitative evidence. Both types of studies draw forth the objectives of this research.
With an emphasis on the national and local contexts, this dissertation analyzes the spatio-economic mechanisms of urban growth and planning performances in the rapidly growing Guangzhou megacity of the PRD. It is the first exploration targeted at a maturely urbanized inner-city to use a combination of urban construction administration documents, survey maps, socioeconomic statistics, GIS and GWR to observe the spatio-economic mechanisms of urban growth in the vertical and horizontal dimensions for the frantic growth years between 2000 and 2010. Defining the sub-district as a spatial analysis unit, it is also the first study to use massive amounts of digital data to evaluate spatial planning performance at the Zoning level, which is the statutory platform of day-to-day planning administration. This study observed a substantial variety of spatio-economic mechanisms in terms of both vertical and horizontal urban growth across the space. Agglomeration economies dominated the gradient distribution of urban growth no matter what kinds of interventions were imposed according to the planning. Whereas the horizontal growth exhibited significant dependence on government budgetary expenditure, the vertical growth was mainly driven by land supply and greatly dependent on the economic globalization level. The spatial performances of Zoning were effective at protecting historical/ecological interests and guiding the direction of spatial expansion in the city fringe. However, it performed poorly in terms of old town evacuation and new town development. It is surprising that the administration uses planning discretion to shape growth based on a Zoning that has proved impossible to achieve in reality. This study reveals that the traditional Chinese-style planning systems risk urban growth in sustainable development.
This dissertation sheds light on the objective observation and investigation of urban growth mechanisms and planning performances. Its findings could help us better understand urban behavior and make inferences on how socioeconomic processes influence urban growth in different dimensions, which in turn could have considerable effects on planning implementation and spatial performance. Its research achievements could aid in the scientific goal-setting, planning formulation and implementation for better growth management in China’s cities. In particular, this dissertation is expected to trigger cross-disciplinary studies on urban behavior and quantitative planning evaluations based on objective observations.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Huang, Zhen.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-203).
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Chapter CHAPTER I --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1
Chapter 1.1.1 --- International Perspective of China's Megacities --- p.1
Chapter 1.1.2 --- National and Local Context of Guangzhou --- p.4
Chapter 1.1.3 --- Urban Growth in Guangzhou --- p.5
Chapter 1.1.4 --- Urban Planning of Guangzhou --- p.8
Chapter 1.2 --- Research Objectives and Questions --- p.11
Chapter 1.2.1 --- Research Objectives and Subject --- p.11
Chapter 1.2.2 --- Research Questions and Hypotheses --- p.14
Chapter 1.3 --- Research Framework and Dissertation Structure --- p.15
Chapter CHAPTER II --- Literature Review --- p.18
Chapter 2.1 --- Urban Planning Paradigm and Methodology --- p.18
Chapter 2.1.1 --- Planning Paradigm shifts with Urban Growth --- p.18
Chapter 2.1.2 --- Planning Theories Dealing with Urban Growth --- p.19
Chapter 2.1.3 --- Planning Methodology based on the Socioeconomic Context --- p.20
Chapter 2.1.4 --- Chinese-style Urban Planning --- p.23
Chapter 2.2 --- Detecting and Understanding Urban Growth --- p.26
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Detecting Urban Growth --- p.26
Chapter 2.2.2 --- Growth Pattern Identification --- p.27
Chapter 2.2.3 --- Exploring the Driving Force of Urban Growth --- p.28
Chapter 2.3 --- Planning Review and Evaluation for Managing Urban Growth --- p.29
Chapter 2.3.1 --- International Experiences --- p.29
Chapter 2.3.2 --- National Experiences --- p.30
Chapter 2.4 --- Sub-summary --- p.31
Chapter CHAPTER III --- Theory and Methodology --- p.34
Chapter 3.1 --- Theoretical Framework and Technical Supports --- p.34
Chapter 3.1.1 --- Interdisciplinary Theories and Techniques --- p.34
Chapter 3.1.2 --- Link between Disciplines and Techniques --- p.35
Chapter 3.2 --- Measurement Methods and Data Acquisition --- p.37
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Measures of Urban Growth --- p.37
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Measures of Planning Performance --- p.39
Chapter 3.2.3 --- Measures of Urban Economy --- p.42
Chapter 3.3 --- Research Methodology --- p.42
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Methodology of Phenomena Observation --- p.43
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Methodology of Correlations Investigation (CIM) --- p.45
Chapter 3.3.3 --- Methodology of Planning Interpretation (PIM) --- p.52
Chapter 3.4 --- Sub-summary --- p.54
Chapter CHAPTER IV --- Detecting Urban Growth and Analyzing Planning Performance --- p.55
Chapter 4.1 --- Database Establishment --- p.55
Chapter 4.1.1 --- Data Collection and Processing --- p.55
Chapter 4.1.2 --- Variables in the Database --- p.68
Chapter 4.2 --- Detecting Urban Growth --- p.70
Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overview of Urban Growth --- p.70
Chapter 4.2.2 --- Distribution of Economic Growth in the Inner City --- p.71
Chapter 4.2.3 --- Spillover of Urban Spatial Growth --- p.73
Chapter 4.3 --- Detecting the Spatial Performances of Zoning --- p.76
Chapter 4.3.1 --- Expected Urban Growth Pattern in Zoning --- p.77
Chapter 4.3.2 --- Conformities between Reality and Expectations --- p.81
Chapter 4.3.3 --- Contradictions between Reality and Expectations --- p.84
Chapter 4.4 --- Detecting Planning Interventions --- p.87
Chapter 4.4.1 --- Expectations of Spatial Development Potentials --- p.88
Chapter 4.4.2 --- Expectations of Capital Agglomeration Potentials --- p.89
Chapter 4.5 --- Sub-summary --- p.90
Chapter CHAPTER V --- Examining Urban Growth Patterns and Planning Interventions --- p.95
Chapter 5.1 --- Analyzing Urban Growth Patterns --- p.95
Chapter 5.1.1 --- Vertical Urban Growth (VUG) Pattern --- p.95
Chapter 5.1.2 --- Horizontal Urban Growth (HUG) Pattern --- p.96
Chapter 5.1.3 --- Spatial Agglomeration Growth (SAG) Pattern --- p.97
Chapter 5.1.4 --- Economic Growth Pattern --- p.99
Chapter 5.2 --- Planning Effects on the VUG Pattern --- p.101
Chapter 5.2.1 --- Model Specification --- p.101
Chapter 5.2.2 --- Spatially Varying Mechanism --- p.103
Chapter 5.3 --- Planning Effects on the HUG Pattern --- p.108
Chapter 5.3.1 --- Model Specification --- p.108
Chapter 5.3.2 --- Spatially Varying Mechanism --- p.110
Chapter 5.4 --- Planning Effects on the Economic Growth Pattern --- p.113
Chapter 5.4.1 --- Model Specification --- p.114
Chapter 5.4.2 --- Spatially Varying Mechanism --- p.115
Chapter 5.5 --- Sub-summary --- p.118
Chapter CHAPTER VI --- Exploring the Spatio-economic Mechanisms (SEMs) of Urban Growth and Estimating Planning Failures --- p.123
Chapter 6.1 --- SEMs and Planning Effects on VUG --- p.123
Chapter 6.1.1 --- Model Specification --- p.123
Chapter 6.1.2 --- Spatially Varying Mechanism --- p.125
Chapter 6.2 --- SEMs and Planning Effects on HUG --- p.129
Chapter 6.2.1 --- Model Specification --- p.129
Chapter 6.2.2 --- Findings and Interpretation --- p.131
Chapter 6.3 --- Spatial Dependence of Economic Elements Growth --- p.132
Chapter 6.3.1 --- Model Specification --- p.132
Chapter 6.3.2 --- Findings and Interpretation --- p.134
Chapter 6.4 --- Government Intervention Mechanism of Spatial Shaping --- p.136
Chapter 6.4.1 --- Model Specification --- p.136
Chapter 6.4.2 --- Spatially Varying Mechanism --- p.138
Chapter 6.5 --- Estimation of Planning Failures --- p.142
Chapter 6.5.1 --- Estimation model Establishment --- p.142
Chapter 6.5.2 --- Findings and Interpretation --- p.143
Chapter 6.6 --- Sub-summary --- p.147
Chapter CHAPTER VII --- Implications of Planning and Application for Growth Management --- p.153
Chapter 7.1 --- Perfect Planning in an Imperfect World --- p.153
Chapter 7.1.1 --- Large Gaps between Planning Wills and Reality --- p.153
Chapter 7.1.2 --- Complex City System and Dynamic Urban Growth --- p.154
Chapter 7.1.3 --- Limitations of Traditional Planning --- p.155
Chapter 7.1.4 --- The Role of Urban Planning --- p.156
Chapter 7.2 --- Concrete Planning Based on Local Knowledge --- p.157
Chapter 7.2.1 --- Local Knowledge Learning from Histories --- p.157
Chapter 7.2.2 --- Local Knowledge Emphasizing Introspection and Empirical Studies --- p.157
Chapter 7.2.3 --- Local Knowledge Supported by Monitoring and Feedback --- p.158
Chapter 7.3 --- Rationale Planning Adhering to Agglomeration Economies --- p.159
Chapter 7.3.1 --- Agglomeration Economies: Positive or Negative --- p.159
Chapter 7.3.2 --- Agglomeration Economies Center: Too Crowded or Not --- p.160
Chapter 7.3.3 --- Agglomeration Economies: Spatial Diffusion Mechanisms --- p.162
Chapter 7.4 --- The Paradoxes of Anti-sprawl Planning --- p.163
Chapter 7.4.1 --- Centralization vs. Decentralization --- p.163
Chapter 7.4.2 --- Growth Priority in the City Fringe --- p.164
Chapter 7.5 --- Shaping Growth with Economic Thinking --- p.165
Chapter 7.5.1 --- Basic Spatio-economic Mechanisms --- p.166
Chapter 7.5.2 --- Driving a Compact New Town --- p.167
Chapter 7.6 --- The Pros and Cons of Government Intervention --- p.167
Chapter 7.6.1 --- Intervention Instruments for Growth Shaping --- p.168
Chapter 7.6.2 --- Pros and Cons --- p.170
Chapter 7.7 --- Growth Management Planning (GMP) as an Application --- p.171
Chapter 7.7.1 --- Role of GMP in the Current Planning Systems --- p.172
Chapter 7.7.2 --- Methodology of GMP --- p.173
Chapter 7.8 --- Sub-summary --- p.175
Chapter CHAPTER VIII --- Conclusion and Limitations --- p.179
Chapter 8.1 --- Restating the Research Objectives and Questions --- p.180
Chapter 8.2 --- Measurement and Data Acquisition Innovations --- p.181
Chapter 8.3 --- Findings of Urban Growth Observation --- p.183
Chapter 8.4 --- Findings of Planning Evaluation --- p.185
Chapter 8.5 --- Planning Implications --- p.186
Chapter 8.6 --- Potential Applications --- p.188
Chapter 8.7 --- Key Contributions and Significance --- p.190
Chapter 8.8 --- Limitations and Future Work --- p.191
References --- p.193
Appendix --- p.204

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亞洲大學
生物資訊學系碩士在職專班
99
Abstract This study aims to do the survey and analysis of medicinal plant resources presented in the Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou City of Guangdong Province.Baiyun Mountain is in the subtropical climate zone, and has abundant vegetation types, with 876 kinds of plants. There are some kinds of state-protected rare and endangered plants: tulip tree, soil treatment incense, dalbergia dalbergia, keteleeria large yezhu bo and so on. Another 657 species of plants in the wild, many species have potential economic values, such as 343 kinds of medicinal plants, 86 timber species, and 97 wild ornamental plants. The green coverage of Baiyun Mountain has reached more than 95%.. This study is mainly conducted by using questionnaire survey and literature analysis to realize the perceptions and understanding of travelers on the role of medicinal plants used in landscape in the Baiyun Mountain; one hundreds questionnaires were sent and 100 valid questionnaires were returned, getting a response rate of 100%. The results show that the age of travelers between 21 and 30 provide the most improvement comments to the park, especially for classifying these planes according to flower colors, blossom seasons and leaf colors, and adding the placards. Obviously, most travelers have insufficient understandings about medicinal plants, particularly for the conserved medicinal plants in the Baiyun Mountain Scenic Area. 57% of them expresses they did not know the medicinal plants at all. An issue is worth considering about how to make more people know about medicinal plants.

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樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
92
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