THE EXPERIENCE OF WEST METROPOLITAN AREA'S DEVELOPMENT AND ITS MEANING TO CHINA
分析了大都市区概念及其对区域社会空间组织的解释力，从交通基础设施、住房与就业、发展前景三方面探讨其发展动力，指出大都市区发展模式是一种整合与互补的方式。
The conception of Metropolitan Area is familiar to urban planning and urban geographical society.However,when use this conception and ideal to deal with urban concentrated area,such as middle-southern of Liaoning,Yangtze Delta Area urban concentrated Area,Beijing-Tianjin-Tangsan Area and Zhujiang Delta urban concentrated Area,to explain and guide its social-spatial organization and structure is really novel.In this article authors analyses these facts—the influence of metropolitan area,the development of regional metropolitan area, which are the power of metropolitan area's developing.Then,draw out that it would be understand in three facets:transportation infrastructure;housing and employment and perspective development.At last,authors point out that metropolitan development method is not the only way but a kind of integration and complementary.