21世纪将是知识经济的时代,以知识为基础的经济正广泛而深刻地影响着人类社会和城市发展的方方面面。这既为城市地理学的发展提供了机遇,同时也提出了严峻的挑战。本文阐述了知识经济的基本内涵,分析和预测了知识经济时代城市发展的若干趋势,并指出在新形势下,城市地理学只有开拓进取,积极创新,以全新的视角审视学科的研究理论、内容与方法,才能在知识经济浪潮中立于不败之地。

The 21st century will become the era of knowledge economy. The knowledge-based economy is widespreading and deeply influencing all aspects of social and urban development. Urban Geography will face up to the challenge as well as opportunity of era of knowledge economy. This paper discusses basic features of knowledge economy, analyzes and predicts some trends of urban development in the era of knowledge economy. To adapt itself to the new situations, it is necessary for urban geography to innovate the research theories, contents and methods.