信息技术影响下的区域城市网络:城市研究的新方向

20世纪60年代末以来,西方新技术范式的出现对城市与区域研究产生了很大的影响,关于城市网络的研究成为西方学术界的热点问题。伴随着90年代以来的数字技术革命,信息与创新等概念被广泛纳入到了城市与区域研究框架中,新的范式或概念不断涌现。论文对西方关于信息技术影响下的城市网络研究观点进行了梳理,同时比较了我国学者关于城市网络的研究,并指出了中国今后城市网络研究的重要发展方向。

REGIONAL URBAN NETWORK INFLUENCED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:NEW DIRECTIONS OF URBAN STUDIES

Urban and regional development in the Information Age has become the focus of the academe.Information technology connects every city together and forms diverse regional urban networks.Since 1960s,the emergence of new technical paradigm has good effects on urban and regional researches,while the research on urban network becomes a hot topic in the western world.With the digital and technological revolution in 1990s,information and innovation are considered in the theoretical framework of urban and regional research.At the same time,new paradigm or concept come forth unceasingly.After 1990s,western scholars mainly research on the following three aspects,the effects of information technology on spatial frame of city,reciprocity of cities,the function and policy of urban network.At present more and more domestic scholars begin to study urban and regional development in the information age,but in this domain,China is still in the early days.The paper reviews the western literatures about network influenced by information technology,simultaneously compares domestic scholars' researches on urban network,and then puts forward important developing directions of urban network research in China.The author thinks that China needs new research method for urban and regional development.Research on representative areas is very necessary and it ought to be set out from regional,urban and industrial aspects.Since corporation is the main body of activity,it plays a positive role in the form of regional network intercommunication.