本文对我国城市地理学近十几年来取得的成绩给予了积极而谨慎的评价,对存在问题和今后研究重点发表了见解。

This paper gives a positive and modest appraisal of China's urban geography during the past decade. Compared with the period of stagnation and depression before, it has made great progress in the main subjects, e. g. urbanization, urban system, urban planning, and has become a most rapidly developing subfield in human geography reaching a scale deemed only next to economic geography. But its development is still unbalanced had has a long way to go to catch up with the advanced level. Some actural and potential problems are enumerated in the paper, and the author presents the opinion on the stress of further research for urban geography in China.