think, thus ushering in this major transformation of the times. Undoubtedly, the era of big data has arrived and influenced the theory, methodology and technology system of human geography and urban research. China's urban socio-economic development is in the midst of a comprehensive transformation, and the National New Urbanization Plan (2014-2020) has just been released, which emphasizes the "urbanization of people" and the concept of promoting sustainable urban development through the construction of smart cities, which has a significant impact on the development of human geography and urban research.
Human Geography and Urban Studies puts forward new requirements. Therefore, the discipline of human geography and urbanism should seize this new scientific research opportunity in the era of big data, rely on the huge big data market in China, and carry out in-depth research on different levels of geographic elements and urban issues from the theoretical and methodological
systems, which is of great significance for theoretical innovation and solving practical problems. Therefore, in order to promote the awareness and understanding of the application of big data to human
geography and urban research in the field of geography and planning in China, this journal has planned a column on the application of big data and urban research, and has organized 3
papers, which are mainly related to the theory, methodology, and application, in order to attract more scholars to pay attention to the research of big data.
--Professor Zhen Feng, Contributing Editor of the Column
Executive Summary
The rapid development of information and communication technology has brought about the arrival of the era of big data, which has changed the spatial organization of the region or city and the behavior of its inhabitants, and has made flow space the main carrier of human activities, and has led to a renewal of the theory and methodology of human geography
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Facing innovation. Based on combing domestic and international literature, this paper argues that human geography research in the era of big data has begun to pay more attention to the integration of nature and humanities, the innovation of data-intensive research methodology, and the humanistic science with the residents' activities as the main body
, and constructs a general framework for the research of human geography and its major subdisciplines in the era of big data. At the same time, it also puts forward the application direction of big data toward spatial planning methods and techniques, individual residents' behavioral decision optimization, enterprise
operational decision making, and government macro policy formulation and management.