%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of Economic Linkage Different Development of Urban Agglomeration
%A Lei Li
%A Weiqi Guo
%A Zhanbo Chen
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 5
%N 3
%P 1-13
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2018
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1104453
%X <div style="text-align:justify;">
	<span style="line-height:1.5;">At present, the economic
development in Hubei Province has initially entered new era of ¡°one principal
two deputy, multi-polar development¡±. In order to further explore the future of
urban development, we ranked prefecture cities in Hubei Provinces with the
intensity model of central place function. Meanwhile, according to 32 selected
indicators, we investigated the economic linkage between these cities wit</span><span style="line-height:1.5;">h
improved gravity model and principal component analysis model. Our results show
that: 1) Regarding intensity value of central city z = 2, 0.9, 0.6 as the
boundary, 12 cities can be divided into four levels with Wuhan in level 1;
Yichang, Xiangyang and Jingzhou in level 2; Huangshi, Shiyan, Jingmen, Xiaogan,
Huanggang, Xianning in level 3; the remaining cities in level 4, respectively. 2) According
to the economic linkage value, the economic linkages between cities are
classified into three levels: closely related, generally related and weakly
related. Among them, the generally related and weakly related linkages are most
likely caused by the cities¡¯ own economic development structure or their long
geographical distance from the economic central city.</span>
</div>
%K Gravity Model
%K Intensity of Cental Place Function
%K Economic Linkage
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/5293256