理论界一般认为“城市群(圈、带)”的概念是戈特曼在对美国东北沿海城市密集地区做研究时提出的。20世纪70年代以后,城市群逐渐成为衡量一个国家或地区社会经济发展水平的重要标志。近年来在中国城市的发展浪潮中,城市群的概念得到了 Theorists generally think that the concept of “urban agglomerations (circles, belts)” was put forward by Gottman in his study of densely populated urban areas along the northeast coast of the United States. Since the 1970s, urban agglomerations have gradually become an important indicator of the level of social and economic development in a country or a region. In recent years in the wave of development of Chinese cities, the concept of urban agglomeration has been obtained