Abstract
The importance of close cooperation among cities can be seen from the development experience of mature urban agglomerations in the world. Compared with the Yangtze river delta and the Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration, cities in Beijing Tianjin Hebei urban agglomerations are in poor connection. This paper studies the internal linkages of Beijing Tianjin Hebei Urban Agglomerations, and finds that: in recent years, the overall spatial linkages of the urban agglomerations have been several times higher than that in 2007, but they show the characteristics of geographically “dense in the South and sparse in the north”; the main connection tracks within the urban agglomerations are roughly “inverted L”, that is, the connection of “Beijing-Tianjin”, “Beijing-Baoding-Shijiazhuang” and “Xingtai-Handan”.
Highlights
The formation and healthy development of world-class urban agglomerations with different development modes all convey a truth: the importance of close cooperation among cities in urban agglomerations[1].The gap between Beijing Tianjin Hebei Urban Agglomeration (Hereinafter referred to as “BTA Agglomeration”) and the other two urban agglomerations (Yangtze river delta and Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration) is reflected in many aspects, such as economic level, evolution stage, integration state, and competitiveness of BTH Agglomeration is weaker correspondingly
The important reason for these situations lies in the unreasonable spatial connection structure of urban agglomerations 2.The essential attribute of regional economy is spatial dependence[3]
The main linkages between cities can be divided into five types: nature, economy, technology, society and administration, each of which can be divided into various forms
Summary
The formation and healthy development of world-class urban agglomerations with different development modes all convey a truth: the importance of close cooperation among cities in urban agglomerations[1].The gap between Beijing Tianjin Hebei Urban Agglomeration (Hereinafter referred to as “BTA Agglomeration”) and the other two urban agglomerations (Yangtze river delta and Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration) is reflected in many aspects, such as economic level, evolution stage, integration state, and competitiveness of BTH Agglomeration is weaker correspondingly. The important reason for these situations lies in the unreasonable spatial connection structure of urban agglomerations 2.The essential attribute of regional economy is spatial dependence[3]. Scientific quantification and improvement of intercity linkages promote the coordinated development of urban agglomerations and the process of regional integration[4]. This paper innovatively selects the data of 2007(No high-speed rail), 2013(High speed railway began service) and 2017(After the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei has become a national strategy, Anyang has been included in the scope of BTA Agglomeration) to study the spatial connection structure of urban agglomeration. This paper selects the provincial capital cities around the city cluster, and brings them into the research scope, breaking the idea of only limiting the perspective within the city cluster, and
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