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Comparative analysis of structural characteristics of China's 18 typical urban agglomerations based on flows of various elements

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  • Ma, Wen
  • Fang, Zhuoqiong
  • Zhang, Xiangfeng

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Flows of different elements among cities can affect urban organizational structures, leading to specific links between and roles for cities within urban agglomerations. Previous studies have mainly focused on flows produced by specific elements in a single urban agglomeration, and they cannot reveal differences in organizational structures affected by multiple elements among different urban agglomerations. Therefore we selected 18 typical urban agglomerations in China and explored their structural characteristics under comprehensive effects of four elements: economy, resources, population and technology, with gravity model and social network analysis. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Urban Agglomeration had a maximum flow intensity of 5.15, this concentration range was the largest from 0.65 to 3.75, indicating that more elements flowed internally. Shandong Peninsula Urban Agglomeration had the largest network density at 0.412, the lowest efficiency at 0.567, and the lowest hierarchy at 0.000, showing that intercity relationships within SP were the tightest among the18 urban agglomerations. Geographical proximity and topological structure of subgroups proved that connections among subgroups were not complex, and cities of different provinces lacked close interactions. Furthermore, most of the key cities with high centrality indexes were municipalities directly under the Central Government or provincial capitals; these cities played important roles in networks and were distributed into “main spillover” and “bidirectional spillover” subgroups. This paper provides a unified analytical framework aimed at urban agglomerations that accounts for flows of multiple types of elements and explores urban organizational structures, and our results could provide scientific guidance for promoting the coordinated and sustainable development of urban agglomerations.

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  • Ma, Wen & Fang, Zhuoqiong & Zhang, Xiangfeng, 2023. "Comparative analysis of structural characteristics of China's 18 typical urban agglomerations based on flows of various elements," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 479(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:479:y:2023:i:c:s0304380023000364
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110308
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