Abstract:

Abstract: Under the process of urbanization, urban-rural fringe and its spatial characteristics have been changed dramatically. This paper analyzed the former studies of scope defining of urban-rural fringe, found out there are three major research areas: urban development, population point of view, a comprehensive analysis; summarized the main characters of boundary defining of urban-rural fringe, such as few research area, less research methods, data differences, insufficient research to explore the depth characteristics; discussed the prospects for future studies and first point out the idea of that combining the traditional "3S": GIS, RS, GPS technology which used widely with two small "2S": Statistic, Survey.