Spatial Pattern of Urban System Based on Gravity Model and Whole Network Analysis in Eight Urban Agglomerations of China

Qipeng Sun, Sijie Wang, Kaiqi Zhang, Fei Ma, Xiaozhuang Guo and Tingzhen Li

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2019, vol. 2019, 1-17

Abstract:

An urban agglomeration (shorted as UA) is a highly developed spatial form of integrated city and an important driving force for regional economic development. The network of UA mainly reflects the spatial connections and organizational structure of all cities, which is of great significance for understanding the development status of UAs and revealing their development laws. However, there are few horizontal studies comparing the network structure of China’s UAs. This study constructs the economic network of China’s eight UAs with the gravity model and explores the overall network structure and city centrality using indicators in network analysis. Then, two groups of UAs with similar network structures are compared. Finally, the association between the gravity model and empirical data is discussed. The results show that the spatial pattern of cities in UAs can be expressed by the gravity model approximately. Besides, UAs with different development levels present different spatial network structures, but the network structures cannot reflect the development levels of UAs directly. We also find that the cities with high betweenness centrality have greater development potential to be the next growth pole.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/6509726

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