知识经济是21世纪的主导经济。新经济的出现必然会给人类的产业活动带来深远的影响。作为经济活动载体的经济地域必将伴随着这种影响发生深刻的"变革"。最终引起经济地域景观形态的全新变化。一方面表现为经济地域空间结构(即其核心、外围、网络及三者组合关系)将发生根本性的变化;另一方面,经济地域空间结构的变化将使得经济地域的外观形态以全新的面貌展现给世人。本文在明确经济地域景观形态基本内涵的基础上,对知识经济带来的经济地域景观要素及其组合关系的新变化作了较系统地阐述。进而对知识经济时代经济地域的景观形态作了定性、定量的展望。

Knowledge economy will play a leading role in the twenty-first century. The appearance of new economy will be certain to bring a far-reaching influence to the industrial activities of humanity. As the carrier of economic activities, a deep transform will be bound to take place in economic region under this influence. And finally this transform will make the landscape formation of economic region to take a overall change. On the one hand, it will show that the spatial structure of economic region (namely its cores, peripheries, networks and their combination) will thoroughly change; On the other hand, the change of the spatial structure of economic region will make the exterior formation of economic region take on a new appearance in the world. Based on understanding the fundamental connotation of landscape formation of economic region, and in a relatively systematic way, the paper sets forth the new changes of the essential factors of landscape of economic region which knowledge economy brings about. And then, the author makes a qualitative and quantitative prospect for the landscape formation of economic region in the knowledge economy ear. There are four parts in this paper. In the first part, the author introduces the fundamental connotation of landscape formation of economic region. The second part:In a relatively systematic way, the author sets forth the new changes of the essential factors of landscape of economic region. This part includes three aspects:First, the cores of economic region will become knowledgeable places, and their arrangement will become scattered, and their scale will become small; Next, the peripheral spaces of economic region will become boundless and multi-subordinate; And then, networks will become invisible. In the third part, the paper expounds the new changes of spatial structure of economic region from two respects:First, the spatial structure of economic region will exist but drift away from the real region, and will become changeable; Secondly, the dualistic structure of economic region will aviaries. In the last part, the author makes a qualitative and quantitative prospect for the exterior formation of economic region in the knowledge economy era.