U.S.-China Cooperative Research (Geography): Data Acquisition and Research Agenda of Contemporary Urban China

这是梅和他的合作项目。明尼苏达大学的徐玲和中国科学院地理研究所的陈树鹏。陈教授现任中国科学院资源与环境信息系统研究室主任。研究人员将建立中国城市地理信息系统（GIS），并对中国城市场所的特征和功能、城市化进程以及中国城市体系的演变进行研究。该项目由美国国家科学基金会和中国科学院共同资助。研究计划包括以下任务：(1)绘制当代中国城市地图，获得所有城市场所的概况；(2)分析中国城市体系中地方间的空间互动；(3)在北京、天津、唐山经济开发区和山东省进行两个案例研究，重点研究城市节点和联系、当今城市特征以及1949年以来的变化。在中国，研究工作将由LREIS的工作人员进行，他们将设计地理编码系统和地理信息系统的数据库结构，将城市场所的位置数字化并输入，并输入城镇和城市社会经济、土地和交通系统的公布数据。在项目过程中，陈教授将在明尼苏达大学参与数据评估。

This is a collaborative project between Mei.ling Hsu of the University of Minnesota and Chen Shupeng of the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. Professor Chen is Director of the Institute's Laboratory of Resources and Environment Information System (LREIS). The investigators will establish a Geographic Information System (GIS) for urban China and conduct research on the characteristics and functions of Chinese urban places, the process of urbanization, and the evolution of the Chinese urban system. The project is sponsored jointly by NSF and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research plan consists of the following tasks: (1) mapping contemporary urban China to obtain an overview of all urban places; (2) analyzing the spatial interaction between places in the Chinese the urban system; and (3) conducting two case studies in the Beijing.Tianjin.Tangshan economic development region and Shandong province that will focus on urban nodes and linkages, the city characteristics of today, and the changes since 1949. In China the research work will be conducted by the staff of the LREIS, who will design the geocoding system and the database structures of the GIS, digitize and input the locations of the urban places, and input the published data on town and city socioeconomic, land, and transportation systems. During the course of the project, Professor Chen will spend time at the University of Minnesota, participating in the data evaluation.