The Livability and characteristics of rural villages in the context of urban-rural integration development: A Case of Jiang Yi Village, Guangdong Province, China

Abstract

The process of Chinese urbanization and rural development has developed to a stage of urban-rural integration. Due to the impact of urban culture and villagers' spontaneous desire for urban civilization, villages and rural communities are in a tendency of convergent compounds, the traditional rural environment, characteristics and spatial pattern of villages disappearing, and thus this has caused a huge impact on the new rural construction. It is an important issue, which should not be overlooked, to protect and promote the rural landscape, geographical space, social, historical and cultural features in the new rural construction. Based on the background above, this paper presents the theoretical framework of livable village construction in the context of urban-rural development, with setting a case in Jiang Yi Village, Foshan City of Guangdong Province, China. The experience of village construction planning and the construction of rural residential areas would enrich the theoretical system of new village construction and could be regarded as a reference to current new rural construction in other areas.