Metropolitan Structure and the Suburban Hierarchy
利用通勤模式评估大都市形态的多种设定，分析41个多中心大都市区中大型郊区城市的网络位置，发现传统单中心和多中心模型均有局限，大都市区实为不同主导地位地点构成的复杂系统。
Recent research has indicated that the traditional monocentered specification of metropolitan form no longer describes the distributions of population and economic activity in many metropolitan areas. Much of the deviation is attributed to changes in the suburban ring. Using commuting patterns as an indicator of intrametropolitan systems of cities, I evaluate alternative specifications of metropolitan form and examine the network position of large suburban cities in 41 multinodal metropolitan areas. The results call into question both the monocentered specification of intrametropolitan relationships and more recent multinodal reformulations, suggesting instead that the metropolitan community is best viewed as a complex system of differentially dominant places.