The Study of Supporting Elements in Small Towns Urbanization with Characteristics

To get a further knowledge over the essential characteristics supporting small towns' urbanization process, case study utilizing towns in a abroad China was conducted. Theme features were discovered to be related to humanistic spirit, historic feature, particular industry and market-oriented strategy. The key elements lie in well reserved and planned architectures, squares, parks, rivers and transport networks. Index Terms - Small towns, Urbanizatio, Characteristics, Theme elements, Key elements