CHARACTERISTICS AND CAUSES OF THE URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN GREATER MEKONG SUB-REGION
分析大湄公河次区域城市空间发展的特征与模式，运用社会空间辩证法和新马克思主义理性探讨其结构成因，指出西方殖民主义与后殖民主义对当地自然、政治经济及文化的冲击是城市问题的根源。
As one of the few regions to be developed,the Greater Mekong Sub-region has special urban developing trace and urban spatial structure.On the basis of analyzing the characteristics and modes of GMS’ urban spatial development,the paper uses the theory of socio-spatial dialectic and discusses the reasons of the urban structures and modes with Neo-Marxism philosophic rationality.The urban problems widespread GMS,such as slow urbanization,urban polarization,regional imbalance of urban development,coexisting of over-urbanization and fake-urbanization,and so on,are the results of the fact that western colonialism and post-colonialism’s attempt to reproduce social relationship,integrated and collided with GMS’ natural environment,political economy and local culture,which is deeply carved on the GMS’ physical space.