Locking, Adjusting and Regeneration: A Comparison of Industrial Spatial Function Evolution Paths in Foreign Urban Areas
Abstract：
This paper analyzes the trend of functional differentiation in the process of
transformation and upgrading of existing industrial land in metropolitan areas by industrial
space transformation cases in foreign countries, and analyzes the typical representatives
of the trend, influencing factors and the specific evolutionary path. This paper finds
that (1) the main influencing factors of industrial space evolution process include its
own advantageous conditions, the main problems to be solved, external development
demands, and the combined force of various factors forms different functional development
directions; (2) from the international cases of functional evolution, the functional evolution
path of industrial space can be divided into regenerative, adjustmen, and locking; (3) the
regenerative evolutionary path takes “cultural vitality” as the core of the path, which leads
the original industrial space to a high-vitality urban area, the adjustment evolutionary path
takes “technological innovation” as the core of the path, which leads the original industrial
space to a high-tech cluster, the lock-in evolutionary path takes “manufacturing upgrading”
as the core of the path, which leads the original industrial space to a higher quality industrial
zone.