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Arid Land Geography ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1): 237-250.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000–6060.2021.184

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Spatiotemporal variation of quality city construction level and its influencing factors in Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration

LUO Zhanfu1(),LI Xiaohui1(),LEI Dehong1,YANG Zhuolong2   

  1. 1. School of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
    2. Transportation Department of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730030, Gansu, China
  • Received:2021-04-21 Revised:2021-06-16 Online:2022-01-25 Published:2022-01-21
  • Contact: Xiaohui LI E-mail:luozf200@163.com;707531473@qq.com

Abstract:

The construction of a quality city is an important part in response to the strategy of ecological civilization, high-quality development, and new urbanization. This paper investigates the evaluation of quality city construction level of Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration, northwest China from eight dimensions of land use, economy, society, ecology, environmental protection, transportation, municipal administration, and image quality using 30 cities (counties) of Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration as the research object and urban built-up area as the basic spatial unit. The results show that: (1) In terms of time series, the overall quality of each city continues to improve, and the quality construction is at a relatively low level; Each city’s change in sub-dimension quality is complex, and there are many different types of change, such as stable type, promotion type, first-decline-and-then-rise type, first-rise-and-then-fall type, mixed type, and so on. (2) The change in space pattern from “double core” to “multi-core coexistence” characterizes the comprehensive quality of each city. The quality difference of the dimension is large and the distribution is not balanced. (3) There are significant differences in the contribution of sub-dimension quality among cities. Identifying feature cities emerge gradually, dividing into three types: single dimension, two-dimension, and multi-dimension dominant. (4) There are numerous factors that influence the quality of a city, in a series as built-up area size>population size>per capita GDP>urbanization rate>external transportation>topographic relief. City scale is the main influencing factor of quality city construction in Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration, urbanization rate and per capita GDP are the secondary influencing factors, and natural factors are the weakest, but they belong to the basic role.

Key words: Lanzhou-Xining urban agglomeration, quality city, spatiotemporal variation, influencing factors