Approach to Delimiting Metropolitan Regions' Boundary and Grading Urban Hierarchy Within a Metropolitan Region——A Case Study of Shanghai Metropolitan Region

作     者：LUO Shougui Andrew JOHNSTON CHEN Dongchun 

作者机构：Antai College of Economics ＆ Management Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200052 China Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development Management School University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 4DT UK 

出 版 物：《Chinese Geographical Science》 (中国地理科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第18卷第3期

页      面：197-205页

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学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 08[工学] 083304[工学-城乡发展历史与遗产保护规划] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0704[理学-天文学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 

基　　金：Under the auspices of Shanghai Foundation Item for Philosophy and Social Sciences (No 2005BCK004) Research Center on Metropolitan Regions of China (No RCMRC 07006) 

主　　题：都市区域 上海 城市层次 地心吸力 

摘      要：In metropolitan regions, the change in the strength of flows between a core city and surrounding cities re-flects the range of the core city s influence, while the gravity between core city and other cities reflects the strength of potential relation between them. This article firstly attempts to delimit the boundary of metropolitan regions with the two dimensions measure combining flows and gravitation. The former is measured through the flow of people be-tween the core city and surrounding cities, and the latter is measured through both population and gross domestic products (GDP) of the core city and surrounding cities. The hierarchy of the cities within a metropolitan region is classified in order to emphasize the roles of the cities belonging to the metropolitan regions, different from the general way through population scale and administrative level, and is typical in China. This paper uses the Shanghai metropolitan region as a research case, determining boundary of this metropolitan region clearly and classifying hierarchy of the cities within the region. The final results are significantly different to previous work, even overthrowing the traditional system of urban hierarchy partly. It is helpful to highlight the function of cities in organizing the regional economy, the level structure of metropolitan regions, and each city s relative importance in a metropolitan region, which can be taken as scientific basis for planning integrated regions or urban systems.