Banaszak Michal, Dziecielski Michal, Nijkamp Peter, Ratajczak Waldemar
Faculty of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland.
Faculty of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznan, Poland; Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, A. Mickiewicz University, ul. Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan, Poland.
PLoS One. 2015 Sep 24;10(9):e0136248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136248. eCollection 2015.
This study offers a new perspective on the evolutionary patterns of cities or urban agglomerations. Such developments can range from chaotic to fully ordered. We demonstrate that in a dynamic space of interactive human behaviour cities produce a wealth of gravitational attractors whose size and shape depend on the resistance of space emerging inter alia from transport friction costs. This finding offers original insights into the complex evolution of spatial systems and appears to be consistent with the principles of central place theory known from the spatial sciences and geography. Our approach is dynamic in nature and forms a generalisation of hierarchical principles in geographic space.
本研究为城市或城市群的演化模式提供了新视角。此类发展范围可从混乱到完全有序。我们证明，在人类互动行为的动态空间中，城市产生了大量引力吸引子，其大小和形状取决于特别是由交通摩擦成本产生的空间阻力。这一发现为空间系统的复杂演化提供了独到见解，且似乎与空间科学和地理学中已知的中心地理论原则相一致。我们的方法本质上是动态的，形成了地理空间中等级原则的一般化。
