关键词: 广州, 大学城, 城市发展

Abstract: As knowledge economic society coming, university towns become one of the most important kinds of City because of their special functions. As a result, a lot of university towns are setting up in China, which ask for us to maks sure the following problems. What are university towns in China? What roles do they play? What functions do they make? By comparing the characteristics of different kinds of university towns at home and abroad, the paper consideres that university towns are the region where colleges and universities are densely located in. According to their developing level from low to high, university towns can be divided into four kinds. They are university districts, university satellite towns, university cities and technopoles. Guangzhou is one of the most important cities in China. There are almost 60 colleges and universities in the city. Except that, a university satellite town named Guangzhou University Town is setting up and will start to enroll new students in the autumn of 2004. The town is located on the Xiaoguwei Isle, Xinzao Town, Panyu District of Guangzhou, 17km far from the city center, covers an area of 43.3 square kelometres. The paper consideres that as a result of setting up Guangzhou University Town, Guangzhou City will develop more quickly and become a studying city, a city with strong functions of education, culture, science and technology, and a city with suitable enviroment for living and working. From the case, we can see the roles and functions which the university towns play.

Key words: Guangzhou, university town, city development