城乡界限淡化：区域发展新趋势

在总结文献与实地调查的基础上探讨城乡界限问题。认为：经济全球化与城市发展日益成为一个密切相关的空间过程，这不仅促进了世界城市体系的形成，而且突破了传统的“二元结构”，促进了城乡界限淡化；高人口密度乡村聚落的发展与转变，乡村非农产业发展导致的城乡产业差别和城乡景观差异变小，以及城乡交流日益频繁导致的文化趋同等是城乡界限淡化的主要表现。提出：建立超越“城乡二元结构”的区域模式进行区域发展规划是新趋势的需要。

Blurring Urban-Rural Boundary: A New Trend of Region Development

The problem of urban-rural boundary is discussed on the basis of literature and on-the-spot investigation. It is concluded that, the globalization and the development of city has became more and more tightness, which accelerated the form of global cities-system, broke through the traditional dualism framework, and advanced the blurring of urban-rural boundary. The main representations of blurring urban-rural boundary are as follows： the development and transformation of high population-density village; urban-rural industry difference caused by the development of rural non-agricultural industry; the decrescent landscape difference of city and rural area; and the cultural convergence resulted from urban-rural interactions. It is put forward that the establishment of the region development pattern, which beyond the urban-rural dualism, is the requirement to cater to the new tendency