Debate on Urban Centrality under the Globalization:Concept,Measures,and Application
梳理了全球化下城市中心性的概念争议,提出中心功能包括中心地、工业、管理和门户功能,并建议用网络分析技术测度城市网络中心性,用基本部分计算近域中心性指数。
As an important concept of urban geography,urban centrality is widely used in urban research and planning.But there is much dispute on undersanding and application of urban centrality under the globalization.Urban centrality means the relative important of a city as the provider of central goods and services in excess of the needs of its own residents,which is the key point in understanding and application of this concept.The paper suggests the central functions including central place function,industrial function,management function and gateway function in globalization,the producer servicers become more important to city.The multi-scale and multi-dimension characteristics of urban centrality are becoming more prominent urder the globalization,the network analytic techniques is useful to calculate the centrality in city network system,and the calculation of the basic part of urban function is useful to measure the centrality index of city in near field.