Metropolitan Space Scoping

Metropolitan region spatial scale belongs to urban spatial form and structure research ofurban geography. Because of metropolitan coordinating region is urban group space cellwhich is made up of according to the demand of the economy and environment integration offunction, it hasn't conformed administrative border, so the research on it should conformmetropolitan region spatial scale. The specific and reasonable metropolitan coordinatingregion can guarantee all cities realizing reasonable function integration of a region and is theresearch basic to the metropolitan coordinating region.First part is prolegomenon which including the background of selecting theme andresearch intention.Second part is the interrelated concept discrimination of the metropolitan coordinatingregion and summarizes metropolitan area and it's concept of China and Japan and Americaand other west countries and.Third part is basis characteristic and form and development of the metropolitancoordinating region.Forth part is the metropolitan region spatial scale definition that bases on center-city.Fifth part is he metropolitan region spatial scale definition that bases on integrate-relation.