Author(s)

Yue Liu^1,2, Su Li^2*

¹Architectural and Urban Planning Design & Research Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
²School of Art and Architecture, Central South University, Changsha, China.

Rapid urbanization in China makes construction and management of city out-skirts a hot spot of the society. Empirically, this paper compares characteristics of city outskirt rural settlements before and after urbanization from the aspects of society, facilities and intentions for settlement, thus pointing out features of changing during the urbanization of rural settlements in city outskirt, and puts forward solutions and proposals in terms of coping with the low-position challenges and soft environment construction under the background of the new trends.

China, City Outskirt, Rural Settlement, Urbanization

Liu, Y. and Li, S. (2017) Research on the Urbanization of Rural Settlement in City Outskirt in China. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 37-50. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.53005.