METROPOLITAN SHADOW-ANALYZE OF THE FOUNDATION OF JIAXING AND THE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSITY BETWEEN SUZHOU AND JIANGSU
SUN Dong-qi1, ZHANG Jing-xiang2, HU Yi3, ZHOU Liang1, JIANG Jin-liang1
1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
3. Urban-Rural Planning Administration Center, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Beijing 100835, China
Abstract Locational factors of distance-limited space play an important and complicated role in the evolution process of contemporary urban areas and extended metropolitan regions. Since region's uneven development, even though some areas have the same geographical conditions, they still have significant economical gap. Some areas become parts of the centre metropolis because they have full development with the elements diffusion from centre metropolis. But the some areas become the metropolitan shadow because they lose their economical elements like surplus labors. Through examining the economical development difference between Suzhou and Jiaxing, this paper indicates that Jiaxing is the metropolitan shadow area of Shanghai, and also it analyzes the formation mechanism of metropolitan shadow. We conclude that:①In China, regional or local policy bias is the main reason of metropolitan shadow formation; ②The effects on peripheral areas of centre city in metropolitan also depend on the peripheral areas themselves, especially by regional and local policies; ③The attraction of centre metropolitan can be changed if the areas around it improve their economy a lot by many measures; ④To reduce the effects of metropolitan shadow, it need the centre city optimize its regulation as well as the shadow areas adopt positive strategies.
2014, Vol. 29 
