TITLE:
Rethinking the Optimal City Size from the Perspective of the City Network
AUTHORS:
Yuhong Cheng, Chujun Ma
KEYWORDS:
Optimal City Size, City Network, Urban Attribute
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
15,
2017
ABSTRACT: The optimal city size is
an intuitive and clear indicator of whether the current state of the city is
efficient. So it is determined by the internal factors of the city and the way
they are organized if the city operates as a container only. In the picture
where the city network has become a normality of the existing economic organizations,
the optimal city size theory, including the concept, the mechanism and the path
need to be rethought. Therefore, this paper starts from the essential concept
of optimal city size and analyzes the influences of urban network on urban
production and internal attribute characteristics, and further briefly analyzes
the influence path and mechanism of the urban network on the optimal city size.