Study Of Development Trend Of CBD In Information Era

Globalization and new technology has brought of a revolution that is fundamentally changing our lifestyle and productivity, which will in turn have its far-reaching impact on the cities as well as CBD. To scientifically facilitate our future metropolis planning and administrating as well as guide the current CBD prosperity, further discussions on CBD development against the new technological background will be well needed.CBD represents the integrity of the business headquarters, which is closely related to the idea of the headquarter economy. Study on the relations among headquarter locations, headquarter economy and the CBD planning can help build up a healthy and orderly urban environment that accommodates a steady economy growth. Set in the context of globalization and technological innovation, the paper starts with a brief discussion on the alteration of headquarter locations. Then, it looks into the causes and mechanism behind those location choices, movements and allocations from three different scenarios: moving between cities, moving within the city, or moving triggered by the functional shifts within the offices. At last, the paper reaches its conclusion that: communication technology is the essential incentive to the CBD booming that caters to its growing needs as well; coinciding with the technology progress, the proportion of CBD area to the city will shrink, and the office locations are more spreading out; but the functions of CBD will be intensified whose influence over the urban economy will be improved.The paper is among the earliest studies in China that probe the underlying relations between the headquarter location choices and the CBD development, which hopefully will form a good academic fundation to further research on China's metropolis development in the perspective technology revolution. Both this study's stretched discussion to some wider context of economic and cross-subjective fields, and its detailed analysis from three focuses of inter-city, inner-city and headquarter functions, stand it out to be an innovative read.