美国铁路建设与城市化关系的历史解读

A Historical Analysis of the Relationship between American Railway Construction and Urbanization

美国是世界上城市化率最高的国家之一,其发展已呈大都市化态势。然美国城市化的初期,铁路建设扮演一个十分重要的角色。铁路的修建对美国城市化产生了重要影响,不仅促进铁路沿线大量城镇的出现,促使地区中心城市的形成,而且还改变了城市空间结构及功能结构。本文重点分析了美国铁路建设对城市化的影响。

The United States is one of the highest rate countries of urbanization.Now,it presents a development tendency of metropolis.The railway played a very important role in its early period.The railway had a great influence on American urbanization.It not only promoted a great many of cities on the railways and appearance of local center cities,but also changed the space structure and function structure of cities.The thesis mainly analyzed the influences of American railway construction on urbanization.