RESEARCH ON SHADOW EDUCATION GENTRIFICATION AND ITS FORMATION MECHANISM:A CASE STUDY OF LANZHOU
In the process of China's economic and social transformation,the phenomenon of the educational gentrification has been of considerable concern,but whether there is a gentleman issue for the fast-growing of the shadow education with the dual attributes of the educational and commercial is worth exploring.With the main urban area of Lanzhou city as the research scope and shadow education institutions as the research object,this study adopts methods such as spatial kernel density and OD cost matrix to quantitatively under-stand the relational interaction process of spatial accessibility,economic adaptability and social contact of shadow education and its associated elements,and then comprehensively determine the spatial characteris-tics of gentrification of shadow education.To explore the gentrification of shadow education and its forma-tion mechanism.The results show that:1)The spatial distribution of shadow education in the main urban area of Lanzhou City is characterized by multinuclear agglomeration in the shape of a river valley belt,and the site selection has the spatial-social contact characteristics of being close to the residential areas.2)The shadow education gentle space in the main city of Lanzhou City presents the distribution pattern of strong east and weak west,more east and less west,with an obvious tendency of expansion,and is most typical of the core area of Chengguan District,which is characterized by high accessibility-high economic adaptability-high social contact.3)Urban function expansion and renewal under the historical inertia of unit system and school district system,the long-term accumulation of high-quality education resources area becomes the spa-tial basis of shadow education gentrification.