地理学视角下城市复杂性研究综述——基于近20年文献回顾

城市作为组织结构复杂的开放人地地域系统,一直是地理学的研究核心之一。论文以2000—2020年相关文献为数据源,构建一套定量分析与定性认知相结合的文献分析判读体系,基于地理学视角从概念内涵、研究主题、技术方法等方面综述城市复杂性研究成果并开展讨论。过去20 a来,中国的城市复杂性研究逐渐从单尺度的格局、过程和机制研究转向于多尺度下复杂交互过程的集成与综合研究,并逐步形成了城市设施网络、城市人居环境、城市经济活动以及城市空间治理4个主要主题,在数据方法上逐步转向于空间技术及社会计算支持下的全景式全生命周期数据支撑的多维场景化分析。今后及未来一段时期,地理学视角下的城市复杂性研究需要进一步加强城市数字基础设施建设及全周期信息采集能力,加深对城市生态经济体系的综合测度及监控,增强跨区域发展机制影响下的城市流空间研究。

Urban complexity studies from the perspective of geography:A review based on the literature in the past 20 years

As an open human-natural system with a complex organizational structure, the urban system has always been the core object of geographic research. Using the published literature from 2000 to 2020 as the data, we developed a new approach by combing quantitative and qualitative analyses to investigate related research results from the perspective of geography in terms of conceptual connotations, research themes, and technical methods, and put forward the future research needs. Over the past 20 years, urban complexity research in China has gradually shifted from single-scale pattern, process, and mechanism research to integrated and comprehensive research on complex interaction processes at multiple scales, and has gradually formed four major themes, including urban facility networks, urban habitat, urban economic activities, and urban spatial governance. In terms of data analysis methodology, the research has gradually shifted to multi-dimensional scenario analysis supported by spatial technology and social computing with panoramic whole-life cycle data. In the future, urban complexity research from the perspective of geography needs to further strengthen the construction of urban digital infrastructure and life cycle information collection capability, deepen the comprehensive measurement and monitoring of urban ecological-economic systems from the perspective of geospatial pattern, and study the urban flow space under the influence of cross-regional development mechanism.