当代西方国家城市化的特点与趋势

二战以后,西方发达国家相继进入后工业社会,城市化速度也由快转慢,逐渐进入成熟阶段.在城市化的模式上,先后经历了向心城市化、郊区化、逆城市化、再城市化四个发展阶段.从微观上看,城市化具有明显的分散化趋势,但从宏观上看,这种分散化又导致更大地域范围内的城市集中,形成现实意义上的大都市区和大都市带..

Study on Characteristics and Trend of Urbanization in Present Western Developed Countries

Since the second World War, western developed countries have entered post-industry society and their urbanization have speeded up and gradually got to mature stage. In urbanization model, they have gone through four stages: centralized urbanization, suburbanization, counter-urbanization and re-urbanization. On the view of microcosm, their urbanization has obvious decentralization trend, but on the view of macrocosm, it has brought about cities and towns centralization in wider region and formed Metropolitan areas and Megalopilis.