Research on the Industrialization in the Coal Region and the Formation of Coal Industries' City Form and Structure

Although there are many researches on the life cyc1e of the resource-based cities, scientists have paidlitt1e attention to the evolution of the forms and spatial structures of these cities. Based on a case study of Fush-un, a typical coal-industry city in China, this paper is designed to fill in the research gaps. It mainly includes:(1) Inquiring into the function of the natural conditions and the econmic activities during the developmentof the resource-based cities, thus revealing the law of the formation of the coal-industry city's form.(2) Analyzing the differentiation between the resource development area and the industrial and commercialarea in the whole resource-based city area and pointing out its specific form and spatial structure.(3) Pointing out the multi-polar linear structure of the coal-mining area and the multi-core structure of theindustrial and commercial area in Fushun coal region, then interpreting the reasons. (4) Putting forward a general model of the evolution of Fushun's city form and its spatial structure and em-phasizing that the interaction between coal industry area and de-coal industry area in Fushun coal region is thekey to city's form and spatial structure. Moreover, evaluating the classical Friedmann. J Model of Regional De-velopment and believing that this model is more practical.