The 1984 urban reforms in China introduced an urban land market and a housing market to Chinese cities and had profound impacts on urban structures. Using data from a 1998survey and other sources in Beijing at the subdistrict (jiedao) level, this research found that differentiations of social areas were taking place in Beijing after over a decade of urban reforms. Unlike western cities with socioeconomic status and family status as dominant forces in forming social areas, Beijing began to experience the impact of differentiation of socioeconomic status (e.g., income gaps), and the family structure factor was ineffective in Beijing because of decades of family planning. Factor analysis revealed four factors that underlay the social-spatial structure in Beijing: (1) land-use intensity as the dominant factor displaying a concentric zonal pattern, (2) neighborhood dynamics, mainly composed of the floating population ratio, featuring a sectoral pattern, (3) socioeconomic status exhibiting a combination of sectoral and zonal patterns, and (4) ethnicity resembling a multiple nuclei pattern. Superimposing the four factors generated a complex urban mosaic in Beijing. Cluster analysis was used to classify the subdistricts into nine different social areas.

利用70年代、80年代和90年代（SPOT）3个时段北京市土地利用资料进行土地利用/覆盖研究，分析其变化机制。北京土地利用变化的形式主要以轴向扩展、卫星城建设、工厂郊迁，郊区大型中价商城建设、郊外别墅区等为主，土地覆盖变化的主要形式有：（1）内城更新与改造；（2）商贸街的重建；（3）粗放型用地向集约型用地的转变。

近年来,长江三角洲除继续保持中国最大的经济核心区外,城市发展也呈现新的趋势和特点,以上海为中心,形成一批经济实力强,社会发展水平高,投资环境优越的城市群。区域城市化进程加快,向巨型大都市连绵区发展。本文从世界大都市连绵区的发展趋势出发，概要论述了长江三角洲大都市连绵区的形成、发展过程和现状特征。概括长江三角洲都市连绵区形成的动力机制主要表现在如下几个方面：（1）政府权力层层下放；（2）行政区划调整；（3）投资主体多元化；（4）市场建设与乡镇和个体企业发展。

城市化已经成为20世纪对人类社会产生最大影响的社会过程。直到最近，城市化几乎是唯一一个被看着是现代化、发展和经济增长的直接指标。未来学家托夫勒认为：高技术产业发展和中国城市化是21世纪世界经济增长与社会发展的两大驱动因素。可以看出，中国城市化不仅对中国，而且对世界都具有特别重要的意义。为了将中国城市化的研究推向世界，本文主要进行城市化的国际研究，试图建立一个中国城市化研究的国际交流平台。

A new social phenomenon and human landscape, featured with the urban poverty and spatial segregation - has taken place since the implementation of China's economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, especially, after the urban reform in 1984. This paper focused mainly on new urban poverty and peseant enclaves in Beijing. The new urban poverty can be seen as floating population in large numbers as labors, doing simple, unstable, temporary and insecure unskilled and bad-paid jobs. At the same time, some peseant enclaves has emerged in Beijing's urban fringe. It is reshuffling the urban stratification and socio-spatial division by the way of immigrant clusters in socialist Chinese cities.

Reforms in China have resulted in a primitive market economy in the last two decades and the autonomy of many large cities has been increased significantly. The old system based on planned economy still prevails in urban economic management although the market economy is playing more and more important role. The organization, structure and role of urban governments have great impact on urban economic development. The organization, structure and role of urban governments have great impact on urban economic development. Thus a municipal government is interested in raising its administrative status, expanding its jurisdiction area and increasing its administrative power because they are the basis for the allocation of the redistributed resources. This paper uses Nanjing as a case study to discuss how adjustment of the administrative areas has re-shaped its spatial economy. After a brief introduction, the paper first discusses the new development strategies of Nanjing and its urban spatial structure. It then examines the restructuring of urban administrative areas, existing problems, new strategies and urban governance in Nanjing focusing on its new development area of Jiangbei. The paper argues that the organization of urban government and restructuring of administrative area should emphasize the construction of the market for production factors to facilitate market competition. An integrated development strategy "two districts as one unit" is proposed to solve remaining administrative problems in Nanjing's Jiangbei area.

改革开放后，伴随着中国城市经济的发展和产业结构的转变，城市地域结构和社会结构发生相应的变化，城市中出现了新兴的富裕阶层，贫富分化成为人们关注的焦点之一。本文从城市社会地理学的角度，通过分析北京城市富裕阶层的问卷调查资料，对北京的城市富裕阶层的组成、生活水平、生活方式和空间分布进行了研究。

中国改革开放和加入WTO需要人文地理学家进一步面对全球化的挑战，发展符合中国国情、与国际主流学派兼容的人文地理学理论和研究方法。作者从发展过程的角度论述了人文地理学的学科性质，认为人文地理学始终是扎根于自然地理学基础之上发展起来的地理学分支学科之一。作者从人文地理学研究内容和研究方法论两方面描述了当代人文地理学发展的新趋势。