Researches on University City and Urban Fringe Coordinated Development——The Case Study of the Western University City in Xi'an

Urban fringe is the region that suburbanization and rural urbanization have a common role,in which the contradictions between urban and rural was showed.Urban fringe as a geographical carrier of university city,university city'construction and management has an important effect on urban fringe's healthy,orderly development.Based on related theories of urban geography and regional economics,the authors have done the empirical study of western university city of Xi'an by using investigation and document analysis method.This paper analyses university city' effect on urban fringe development and the problems between the two.By analyzing,reaches the following conclusions:(1)University city has promoting effect on Urban fringe;(2)There are also some problems between them,such as landuse conflicts,the traffic problem in university city,as well as the "Villages in cities".It also makes preliminary discussion on how to keep university city and urban fringe coordinated development.