城市功能专业化分工：研究综述与展望

With the continuous development of regional and global value chain, striking evidence is presented with a previously unremarked transformation of urban structure from mainly sectoral to mainly functional specialization. Functional specialization has become a new hotspot in the research of current urban structure. Existing related researches of functional specialization mainly concentrate in three aspects: the connotation, origin and measurement of functional specialization; the formation mechanism of functional specialization; and the status quo of functional specialization. These offer different perspectives and analytical tools for functional specialization. However, a complete and unified analysis framework model in the research of functional specialization has not yet been established. Theory development of "multi-cities, multi-function" specialization; measurement of the model of "multi-cities, multi-function" specialization; empirical analysis based on the factors of functional specialization; analyses of the effects of functional specialization are to be discussed topics in the future.