Study on the Features and External Factors in China's Urban Fringes - The Case of Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Region

摘要

With the rapid development of Urbanization, China's urban fringes are faced with a new development background and have new features which are different from the ones the domestic scholars summarized in early years. This document based on a better knowledge of the new development background of urban fringes in Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou Region, concludes two external factors, summarizes features of fringe evolution in an empirical perspective and proposes prospect of future research directions.