External Urban Relational Process: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place Theory

被引：233

作者：

Taylor, Peter J. ^{[1
]}

Hoyler, Michael ^{[2
]}

Verbruggen, Raf ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Northumbia Univ, Sch Built & Nat Environm, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8ST, Tyne & Wear, England

[2] Univ Loughborough, Dept Geog, Loughborough LE11 3TU, Leics, England

来源：

URBAN STUDIES | 2010年 / 47卷 / 13期

关键词：

WORLD CITY NETWORK; SOCIAL-STRUCTURE; RURAL CHINA; CITIES; SPACE; MODEL;

D O I：

10.1177/0042098010377367

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Central place hierarchies have been the traditional basis for understanding external urban relations. However, in contemporary studies of these relations, a new emphasis on urban networks has emerged. Rather than either abandoning or extending central place thinking, it is here treated as representing one of two generic processes of external urban relations. Town-ness is the making of 'local' urban-hinterland relations and 'city-ness' is the making of 'non-local' interurban relations. Central place theory describes the former through an interlocking hierarchical model; this paper proposes a central flow theory to describe the latter through an interlocking network model. The key difference is the level of complexity in the two processes.

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页码：2803 / 2818

页数：16