Comprehensive Policies and Designs for Urban Villages: The Renewal and Transformation of Jixiang Village within the Framework of China's Spatial Planning

This thesis focuses on the redevelopment of urban villages. The aim is to explore alternative approaches beyond complete demolition. It seeks to uncover the positive aspects of urban villages and their contributions to society. The study employs extensive reading to understand the basic background of urban villages, including their emergence and related institutional frameworks. Real-world urban villages were selected for online surveys and on-site visits. Redevelopment policies tailored to the specific characteristics of each village are then proposed. The innovation of this paper lies in combining the redevelopment of urban villages with policy, implementing policies at different scales, from high to low, in specific areas. This closely integrates the redevelopment of urban villages with urban planning, meeting policy requirements.