1. College of Computer and Information, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China 2. Research Center for Resource and Environment Spatial Information Statistics of Fujian Province,Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
The study of the spatio-temporal evolution of urban agglomeration is of great importance for optimizing the spatial structure of urban agglomeration and promoting the coordinated development of cities. Taking the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration as a study case, the authors revealed the characteristics and objective law of urban evolution process from spatial and temporal dimensions. On the basis of DMSP/OLS night-time light data, the spatial distribution and area of urban from 1992 to 2013 were obtained for the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration. Using the rank-size rule model, the authors determined the size characteristics of urban area. Combined with urban spatial expansion speed index and standard deviation ellipsoid method, the intensity and spatial dynamics of urban area change were clarified in the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration. Some conclusions have been reached: (1) from 1992 to 2013, there was a significant increase of the total night-time lights in the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration, with the overall growth rate being 135.89%. (2) The effect of radiative driving effect of the central cities of the urban agglomeration on the surrounding areas gradually enhanced, and the distribution scale of the urban agglomeration changed from the unbalanced state to the equilibrium state with time. (3) The spatial expansion of the urban agglomeration was characterized by the ring stratification around central cities. The evolution pattern of the urban agglomeration was from west to east and from north to south, and its gravity center shifted to the southwest. It can be inferred that the driving force of the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration development was mainly concentrated in the coastal cities. The study can provide data supports and references for the coordinated development of the circum-Bohai urban agglomeration and even the whole country.
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