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Architecture and Urbanism Protection and utilization of traditional villages

Figure 6. Current photos of resource sites around Jiangbian Village. Source: Compiled for the present study.

from being a high-tech zone to a scientific city, and
began to put forward many opportunities for spatial
shift development, bringing new opportunities to
the surrounding areas. To allow more room for
industrial development, Songshan Lake promoted the
development of Songshan Lake East Industrial Park
(Figure 7), which includes Hengli, Dongkeng, and
Qishi towns. As an important part of the development
of Songshan Lake Park, 607 hectares of undeveloped
land in the northern part of Qishi are included in the
advanced manufacturing development group. With
the rapid development of the northern industrial park
in Qishi Town, the surrounding area will turn into a
continuous urbanized development area, and further
affect development of the surrounding villages. The
advent of the era of territorial spatial planning, the
development of urban and rural areas in an integrated
planning and control strategy will accelerate the
coordinated development of the region.
Rapid urbanization has caused the urban built-up areas Figure 7. Location of Songshan Lake East Industrial Area (Qishi
in most regions to expand outward year by year, and the Precinct). Source: Compiled for the present study.
surrounding suburban villages are gradually integrated into
the cities, and rural settlements are constantly surrounded in urban villages have accurately seized the development
by urban construction sites, forming urban villages (Yan opportunities, actively responded to the wave of
et al., 2004), most of which used to be traditional villages urbanization, and successfully achieved development
in the suburbs of the cities. For example, the historic transformation. Due to the constraints caused by land
village of Huangpu in Guangzhou (Figure 8) was also development, to free up more space for development,
annexed under the wave of urbanization. In response to many villagers coped with the situation by taking multiple
social and economic development, Huangpu villagers measures to revitalize the unused land in the village
have demolished many historic buildings and built new through the introduction of market entities to cooperate
ones, intertwining old buildings with modern residential with multiple parties to create a new rural industrial
buildings, and constantly destroying the village’s original growth pole. For example, through the establishment
appearance. The traditional villages, which are interspersed of Nanshe Creative Culture Tourism Development Co.,
with high-rise buildings, are constantly being destroyed, Nanshe Hostoric Village in Chashan Town, Dongguan
causing great difficulties in the protection of traditional City is protected and utilized by the method of piecemeal
villages. However, a small number of traditional villages protection, taking into account the classification,” and the

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