A Study On Coordinated Development Of City Regions

This research analyzes strategy choices in city competition and institutional organizations of city cooperation as well as the mechanism through which these two elements exert their influences on coordinated development within city regions. This research is based on an overall examination of the developments in the theories about city region development. It recognizes that prominent tendency of interdisciplinary study in this development and, as a contribution to these explorations, suggests the idea that the theoretical building in the area of regional geography may draw some help from the experiments of thinking embodied in systematic science and game theory. Methodologically, this research designs a framework which establishes both city competition and regional cooperation as two essential coordinates for analysis. Within such a framework, it explores the possibility of applying the methods of system science, non-cooperation game theory and cooperation game theory to the problems concerning the coordinated developments within city regions. This research is further supported by a series of case studies which help to demonstrate with concrete examples the complicated relationship between city competition, city cooperation and regional coordinated development. On the basis of these case studies, this research also provides some practical suggestions for the managemental intervention in the current development of city competition and cooperation. This research consists of the following six chapters. Chapter One: Literature Review 1) Discussions on the related concepts concerning city regions 2) A comprehensive review on the related researches about city regions Chapter Two: The Framework for the Thesis and the Design for the Research. Chapter Three: The Systematic Analysis on the Coordinated Development of City Regions 1) Systematic analysis on the characters and the realizing process of coordinated development of city regions 2) Revelation of the research of local rule in complex science, symbiotic relationship in ecology, and HWME in system science to study on coordinated development of city regions Chapter Four: Study on Local Rule of the Coordinated Development of City Regions 1) Summarization for the meaning, reasons and behavior of the self-departmentalism city competition 2) Analysis for non-cooperation game models in analyzing the self-departmentalism city competition Chapter Five: Study on Symbiotic Relationship of the Coordinated Development of City Regions 1) Generalization for the historical development, characters and the system arrangement of the regionalism in city regions 2) Analysis for cooperation game models in analyzing the institutional organizations of city cooperation Chapter Six: Conclusion...