大学城建设对广州城市发展的促进分析

知识经济时代的到来使得大学城成为最具时代特色的城市空间形态之一,大学城因此成为社会各界的关注焦点。在系统梳理中外有关大学城的概念,尝试从新角度重新认识大学城及其与大学园区、大学卫星城、大学城市、新科技城市的关系基础上,通过对广州大学城的实证研究,分析大学城对建设学习型城市、强化城市教育、文化、科技功能,改善城市空间结构,催生城市经济新增长点等方面的作用。

University Town and City Development in Guangzhou

As knowledge economic society coming, university towns become one of the most important kinds of City because of their special functions. As a result, a lot of university towns are setting up in China, which ask for us to maks sure the following problems. What are university towns in China? What roles do they play? What functions do they make? By comparing the characteristics of different kinds of university towns at home and abroad, the paper consideres that university towns are the region where colleges and universities are densely located in. According to their developing level from low to high, university towns can be divided into four kinds. They are university districts, university satellite towns, university cities and technopoles. Guangzhou is one of the most important cities in China. There are almost 60 colleges and universities in the city. Except that, a university satellite town named Guangzhou University Town is setting up and will start to enroll new students in the autumn of 2004. The town is located on the Xiaoguwei Isle, Xinzao Town, Panyu District of Guangzhou, 17km far from the city center, covers an area of 43.3 square kelometres. The paper consideres that as a result of setting up Guangzhou University Town, Guangzhou City will develop more quickly and become a studying city, a city with strong functions of education, culture, science and technology, and a city with suitable enviroment for living and working. From the case, we can see the roles and functions which the university towns play.