Define Method Of Metropolitan Area Scope & Its Application

Along with development of the city, the economic activities of the city prospers increasingly and the scope of the city have not only confined in build-up area. It continuously spread to perimeter and appear city country combination and center and close and combinative appearance in edge. Therefore, current city region concept in city planning can't satisfy the need of the city development. And metropolitan area, a function representing region concept meets a kind of new region concept that city need exactly.Metropolitan area is widely used now in western nations. It appears when the city has turn to high development and is to expand the entity region in region space. It is also a kind of district concept of the city and has great significance for solution city problems. Therefore, turn in the continuously development in China today that the beginning studies with establish the Chinese function region is a trend.The thesis bases on such present condition exactly to study and analysis with metropolitan area. Then putting forward the define method of metropolitan area scope in China and take HangZhou City as an example proceed the elucidation.