Author(s)

Jinyue Yang

Corresponding Author

Jinyue Yang

ABSTRACT

Taking 16 prefecture level cities in Shandong Province as the research objects, this paper studies the coupling coordination of urbanization in Shandong Province. From the time dimension, this paper analyzes the dynamic changes of urbanization coupling coordination in Shandong Province from 2010 to 2018; from the spatial dimension, through the variation coefficient and Theil index, this paper makes a comparative analysis of urbanization coupling coordination in different cities. Based on the four dimensions of economy, society, population and landscape, this paper selects 24 indicators to construct the index system of urbanization coupling coordination level. According to the entropy method, calculate the index weights, obtain the scores of the four subsystems, and study the coupling and coordinated development degree between them. The results show that: from 2010 to 2018, the urbanization coupling coordination degrees of the whole Shandong Province and its all cities are on the rise, and the urbanization coupling coordinations levels of all cities have been improved. Qingdao, Jinan, Yantai and Weifang are among the top cities in Shandong Province, while Zaozhuang and Rizhao are lower in Shandong Province. The variation coefficient and Theil index of urbanization coupling coordinated development in Shandong Province are both decreasing, which indicates that the dispersion degree of coupling coordinated development among different regions in Shandong Province is decreasing.

KEYWORDS

Urbanization, coupling coordination, spatiotemporal evolution