The Change of Spatial Disparities of Urban Development in China, 1990s
Received date: 2003-06-21
Revised date: 2003-12-08
Online published: 2004-05-25
Supported by
The State Outstanding Youth Foundation of China, No.40125003
Based on the statistical data, this paper makes an analysis on the change of spatial differentiation of urban development in China during the 1990s. The spatial units in this study are the 30 provincial level districts, including provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Principal component analysis and cluster analysis are two main methods in the research. Firstly, the characteristics of urban development in China since 1990 are sketched out. Results indicate that the level of urbanization increased greatly and the process of urbanization has stepped into an accelerating period; the metropolises developed so rapidly that the regionalization has become more popular; the quantity of compact urban districts has increased and the landscape of regional urbanization has emerged; and the outward property of the urban system has been enhanced, and the relationship between cities and regions has been changed greatly. Secondly, three main factors, namely aggregative-oriented factor, innovative-oriented factor and outward-oriented factor, are chosen by factor analysis to describe the spatial variation of the urban development properties, and ten city-clusters are obtained. Thirdly, through the comparison of the spatial disparity of 2000 to that of 1990, the change of spatial disparity of urban development since 1990 is analyzed from three perspectives, namely the level of urban development, the property of urban development and the speed of urban development.
Key words： urban development; change of spatial disparity; China
YAN Xiaopei, LIN Zhangping . The Change of Spatial Disparities of Urban Development in China, 1990s[J]. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2004 , 59(3) : 437 -445 . DOI: 10.11821/xb200403014
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