Polycentric Network Development Patterns of Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration

Field: Social Sciences (Social Sciences)

Currently,the polycentric development pattern of urban agglomeration has developed as a trend in the global urbanization.On the basis of reviewing Chinese and foreign polycentric development patterns,the article estimated the degree of agglomeration-fragmentation and the economic concentration force for Zhongyuan urban agglomeration in various scales of regional space,and then analyzed the effect of transport network on the spatial development of Zhongyuan urban agglomeration.Moreover,this article scrutinized the long-term development characteristics and problems that have existed in Zhongyuan urban agglomeration. Therefore,the traditional monopole mode confined the development of Zhongyuan urban agglomeration. Then,based on the empirical analysis of these studies,the polycentric network development pattern for Zhongyuan urban agglomeration is proposed.Our research showed that,1) The Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration is consistent with the typical development pattern of the plain-type Urban Agglomeration,which demonstrates a continuously homogeneous developing trend among all the city regions.Its development is in accordance with K-value principles of the central place theory.These phenomenon noticed in the past development testified that the Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration has long been in the development path of homogeneous and decentralized evolution for quite a while;2) Zhengzhou city,as the growth pole of the Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration is weakly leading the growth of other regions,and has phased out from the concentration stage to the concentration-diffusion stage,but hasn′t yet entered into the stage of intense concentration,and therefore it need to further strengthen the concentration force of economic development to improve the radiation force and scale of the whole range of Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration;3)The node cities in Zhongyuan Urban Agglomeration are homogeneously developing in a relatively independent way;the disparities between each city are relatively small in the degree of economic development.The downtowns of each node city almost simultaneously entered into the same stage of concentration-diffusion,but the node cities are still in the stage of intense agglomeration;4) Zhongyuan urban agglomeration should implement the polycentric development pattern under the strategic framework of the Central Plains Economic zone,which take Zhengzhou as the major pivot, other node cities as the minor pivot,and the transport pathway as the network.Each node cities,as the pivot in the regional network should develop independently and collaboratively,be specialized and functionally complementary; 5) The node cities in Zhongyuan city agglomeration are connected with advanced transport network, and have sculptured the polycentric framework of development,which provide the necessary condition and lied the foundation for the consistent polycentric network-style development of spatial pattern.In brief,the research conducted above prove the inevitable trend of the polycentric spatial pattern of development for the Zhongyuan city agglomeration.With the empirical methodology,the above-mentioned polycentric development patterns of agglomerations development model is specific with the characteristics of Zhongyuan urban agglomeration, which distinct from theWestern European countries′patterns.