Abstract：The article aims at exploring the guiding ideology, principles and selection of index system in the making of urban population maps in China, with Tianjin urban population map as an illustrative example. The article holds that a city is the chief embodiment of a country's economic development, and therefore a special economic region. The city bears the largest collection of a country's high-level science and technology, and it is a remarkable symbol of a country's ideological progress. Furthermore, the city plays a strategic role in improving the cultural quality of a nation. These are the guiding ideology in the making of urban population map. The author thinks that the followings should be the principles underlying the making of urban population maps:a combination of scientific, pragmatic and artistic quality, increasing the capacity of map, and a proper distribution, etc. In the process of map making, the dialectical relationship of map legend and scale system, natural and humane factors, more grades and less grade differential, etc.should all be taken into consideration.
谢让志. 城市人口地图编制指导思想、原则及指标体系[J]. 人文地理, 1995, 10(1): 40-43,88.
Xie Rangzhi. THE GUIDING IDEOLOGY, PRINCIPLES AND INDEX SYSTEM IN THE MAKING OF URBAN POPULATION MAPS. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 1995, 10(1): 40-43,88.
