On promoting the urban centrality of Guangzhou under the globalization;

Debate on Urban Centrality under the Globalization:Concept,Measures,and Application

First of all,my thesis discusses the theoretical background of urban centricity research,analyses and compares various research methods in urban centricity,and then I outline the status of Wuhan urban circle,construct centricity indicator system of Wuhan urban circle based on theoretical basis for introduction.

Based on the urbanized connotation,an appraisal index system of the urban centricity was constructed,and an empirical analysis of the urban centricity of main cities in Huaihai Economic Zone was made on the production centricity,the commerce centricity,the information centricity,the transportation centricity,the science and education centricity,with the method of entropy.

On the Functional Positioning and Strategic Goals of Jinan in Building Up Regional Central City;

This paper first expounds on the dominant role of the regional central city in the system of sustainable regional development.

Taking Zhengzhou as a case,this paper studies index system of radiant ability of regional central city and gives weights to indexes by AHP(analytical hierarchy process) method.

It can be seen that perfecting functions of regional central cities is not only the necessary choice during regional economic development but also the objective law and trend from theoretical analysis of the development of regional central cities and the example analysis of regional central cities in our country.

A Study on Los Angeles s Development from a Regional Central City to a Global City;

This thesis analyses how Los Angeles,one of the important cities in contemporary America and even in the world urban system,developed itself from a regional central city into a global city.