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| AN ANALYSIS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPACE-TIME EVOLUTION OF WUHAN METROPOLITAN AREAS IN THE PAST 55 YEARS |
| LIU Cheng-liang1,2 |
| 1 ourism management department of Business school, Hubei University, Academy of tourism development, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China |
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Abstract The increasingly fast development of urbanization, information and industrialization and the incessant emergence of urban agglomeration, make the economic links and complexity of metropolis become one of the focus and leading of current Geography studies.
At first, this paper lays off the hinterland change and ascertains spatial range of Wuhan metropolitan areas through the model of spatial action intensity on economic links.
Then, based on studying conjugate connection between spatial evolution of metropolitan areas and development of its economic links, the paper concludes the development courses of economic links on Wuhan metropolitan areas during recent 55 years, from five aspects including urbanization, transportation, industrialization, communication and serve industrialization, which concludes the fluctuant development phase (1949-1965 years),the stagnant phase (1966-1978 years),the fast development phase (1979-1989 years),and the general development phase (from 1990 years to this day).
And it shows the spatial shape evolution of Wuhan metropolitan areas:single core in 50's, the Wuhan metropolitan region in 60's, Wuhan-Ezhou-Huangshi urban agglomeration in 70's, the East-Hubei urban agglomeration, the Wuhan metropolitan areas in 90's.
At last, it also analyses the different phases of the evolution of Wuhan metropolitan areas' spatial structure from the aspects of transportation and function extending of it's economic links, then we conceive that in the end there will develop into a Central Metropolis.
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Received: 18 October 2005
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2006, Vol. 21 
