Abstract

Aiming at the spatial distribution of food industry and its evolving model, this study carries out research on the change characteristics of inner spatial distribution of food industry in Wuhan City and the growth of scale of urban land use. Taking Wuhan City as example, from the perspective of micro-level, this study adopts analyzing technologies and statistic analyzing methods about GIS/SPSS and other space. The results show that, during the period of 2000-2010, the spatial distribution of food industry in Wuhan City is featured by “rapid growth in old towns and main city zones, slow growth in metropolitan areas”, descending of food industry in core circle part and decentralizing towards outside of the old towns, as well as obvious phenomenon of suburbanization.

Keywords:

Evolving model, spatial distribution of food industry, Wuhan city,

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