Research on urban spatial structure of nanchang city based on mobile communication data

Abstract

With the advent of the age of social mobile and big data, communication devices not only become the necessity of modern life, but also permeate almost every facet of people’s lives. The arrival and development of the information era has brought a series of revolution to people’s special activities, thus causing the change in the cities’ special structure. In recent years, the studies on urban internal spatial structure have always been the hot field of architecture, economics, geography and etc. This paper first explains the internal space structure of the city. According to the situation of limitations of traditional researching methods, the article based on the big data of mobile location-based service that mesh divides the cities and defines the regions where the density of mobile usage is higher than the average as mobile hotspot. Then through the observation of grid mobile hotspot, we can acquire the recognition of urban public system and internal functional divisions under different space and time law. Taking Nanchang City for example, through mobile hotspot method, we can come to the conclusion that the CBD business area in Honggutan region, industrial area in Xiaolan region, and most living area in the eastern part of River Fu qualifies the current city planning of Nanchang, which could provide reference for the planning department.