China's County-Level Urbanization in the Perspective of Metropolitan Regions and City Agglomeration:Spatial Types and Characteristics
In recent years,China's urban hierarchy has undergone drastic restructur-ing,with metropolitan regions and city agglomerations centered on central cities be-coming the primary spatial form of urbanization,favoring key cities in the urban sys-tem.However,counties.which cover China's vast territory and are crucial for sup-porting new urbanization,have received scant scholarly attention.This research ad-dresses this gap by examining 1,853 selected counties.Drawing insights from the de-fined scope of 19 city agglomerations and 36 metropolitan regions,and taking into account the influence of key cities in various locations,the paper classifies selected counties into three types:those in the metropolitan radiation area,those under the po-tential influence of metropolitan regions and city agglomerations,and those in the gap areas.The study analyzes China's county-level urbanization pattern through the lens of metropolitan regions and city agglomerations.Utilizing data from the seventh national census and other relevant public statistical sources for county level jurisdic-tions,as well as weights determined by the entropy method,the paper measures county-level urbanization levels using indicators of population,economy,society,and land.Furthermore,the paper summarizes the spatial pattern characteristics of current county-level urbanization and proposes corresponding planning policies for each of the three types of counties.
county-level urbanizationevaluation of urbanization levelmetropolitan regioncity agglomerationspatial pattern
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维普
