近代天津洋行的空间演化特征及发展策略研究

Spatial Structure Evolution and Strategies of Foreign Companies in Modern Tianjin

洋行是近代外国人在中国经营的商行与机构,其发展策略与空间演化体现了帝国主义对近代中国城市的破坏与重建的双重影响。以天津为例,探讨洋行在城市发展中所扮演的重要角色,并借助历史地理信息系统(HGIS)对其空间演变过程进行可视化分析。结果表明,天津作为近代中国北方的贸易中心城市,吸引大量洋行聚集,形成独特的贸易空间体系。洋行对近代天津城市空间结构的形成与变迁具有多方面的复杂作用,对近代开埠城市的建设与发展产生了深远的影响。

Foreign owned trading companies were an essential institution between China and western countries in modern times.Its spatial evolution and strategy represent imperialism\s destructive and reconstructive influences on Chinese cities.This paper takes Tianjin as a case study,and analyzes the important role that foreign companies played in urban development through a visual analysis of its spatial evolution process using HGIS.The result shows that Tianjin,as a trading center in northern China attracted a large number of foreign companies,which formed a unique spatial system.These foreign companies had a complex impact on the formation and transformation of the urban spatial structure of modern Tianjin,as they did on other treaty port cities.