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A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China

WANG Bo ZHEN Feng WEI Zongcai GUO Shu CHEN Tingting

WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. 中国地理科学, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
引用本文: WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. 中国地理科学, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
Citation: WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4

A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
基金项目: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40971094)
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    ZHEN Feng. E-mail: zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn

A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China

Funds: Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40971094)
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    Corresponding author: ZHEN Feng. E-mail: zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn
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A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China

doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
    基金项目:  Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40971094)
    通讯作者: ZHEN Feng. E-mail: zhenfeng@nju.edu.cn

摘要: The existing researches on the influence of information and communication technology (ICT) are mainly focused on human activity, whilst with few efforts on urban space. In the e-society, the widespread adoption of ICT devices not only affects almost every aspect of people's daily life and thereby reshapes the spatial development of regions and cities, but also generates a large amount of real-time activity data with location information. These georeferenced data, however, have relatively recently attracted attention from geographers. Adapted from Lynch's framework based on people's perceptions, this paper proposes a framework of urban spatial structure based on people's actual activity, including five elements, namely activity path, activity node, central activity zone (CAZ), activity district, and activity edge. In the empirical study, by using one week's check-in tweets (from February 25 to March 3 in 2013) collected in Nanjing City, the five elements are recognized and analyzed. Through the comparison between our results and urban spatial structure based on population (and land use), we argue that ICT uses: 1) lead to polarize, rather than to smooth, the urban structural hierarchy, due to the dual role of distance; 2) enable a partial decoupling of activity and activity space node, which challenges our conventional understanding of the role of home and the utility of travel; 3) blur the boundaries of activity districts and hence may play a positive role in enriching districts' functions, which should not be overlooked in the current urban transformation in China.

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WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. 中国地理科学, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
引用本文: WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. 中国地理科学, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
Citation: WANG Bo, ZHEN Feng, WEI Zongcai, GUO Shu, CHEN Tingting. A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Urban Activity Spatial Structure in E-society: Empirical Evidence for Nanjing City, China[J]. Chinese Geographical Science, 2015, 25(6): 672-683. doi: 10.1007/s11769-015-0751-4
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