Study On The Development Of Secondary Cities In Metropolitan Area

Metropolitan area is the most popular model to which are the cities plan to develop accord and is a kind of circle structure of towns in which towns have close social and economic ties. Nowadays, In the development of Metropolitan area, nuclear city has the advantage of peripheral city on the rate and quality of development. On the contrary, being under shadow of nuclear city, peripheral city grows slowly, and the gap between them is widening. In addition, implementing strategy of metropolitan area may strengthen the advantage nuclear city originally has. Taking the Nantong City as an example, from the angle of metropolitan area and strategic level, the paper studies the basic view of the development of peripheral secondary city. It will provide reference and guidance for the development and the planning of peripheral secondary city or underdeveloped city, and also for the construction of metropolitan area.Nantong city is located at the intersection of Yangtze-River and the Eastsea, at the intersection of two national development corridors and is the nodal city where the Ning-tong urban corridor intersects with Lian-Tong urban corridor. Nantong municipality is a part of Yangtze delta Metropolitan area. The paper defines the concept of metropolitan area and introduces the research pertinent to it, and introduces the research on the theory of central place, city system, the research on metropolitan area. As historic background, the paper studies the formation process of the peripheral city, and reveals the law of development of Nantong City, according to the evolvement of transportation structure, the construction of the cluster of Nantong port, As towns background, this paper also studies the urban group in the Yangtze delta, especially Yangtze delta metropolitan area. Then the paper expounds on the actual characteristic and spacial structure of Nantong metropolitan area, and then studies the Nantong's impact on the metropolitan, then concludes the formation mechanism of peripheral city.Finally, the paper analyses the jam and opportunity in development of Nantong city. Using the theory and method in peripheral city' development for reference, we suggest that how Nantong city make full use of outer condition and inner potential in its city-planning, and implement two grand strategy: the development strategy of exterior and development strategy of interior. To implement the strategy of integration of cities, outward economy, and culture city, is to upgrade the competition force of city and quicken the development of city. And then, the thesis puts forward some messures concerned, including changing the idea, establishing cooperative institution for cities integration, adjust city planning, perfecting the traffic system and so on.