中文摘要：

城镇体系中的空间联系研究可以分为大尺度的网络联系和小尺度的地域联系两种。以国内外研究相对较少的小尺度范围的城市空间联系为研究对象，选择处于快速城镇化进程中的重庆主城核心区与作为其卫星城之一的北碚为案例地，借用数据量需求较大、结论更符合实际的经验主义研究方法，系统分析了北碚区与重庆主城核心区间的空间联系。研究显示：北碚区与重庆主城核心区空间联系发展历程经历了4个阶段，联系日益紧密；城市功能方面，北碚区已经从独立城市成为重庆主城核心区重要的功能组团，有别于传统的“卧城”概念；空间联系强度方面呈现出明显的距离衰减特征，并与地区的社会因素、经济发展水平等因素有密切关系；通过对二者空间联系解释的框架分析，表明城市政府的政策和规划在两地空间联系发展中起到主导作用。

英文摘要：

Rapid industrialization and urbanization reshapes the urban systems and the urban structures. The spatial relations could be divided into two types： network relations and territorial relations. Network relations refer to the long distance relations at a higher level, such as global, regional or national level; territorial network refers to relations of proximity, which generally occurs at regional or sub-regional level. The former one had been discussed fully by researchers. Some studies had been widely used in urban and regional planning practice. However, fewer studies had referred to the topic of territorial network. This paper aimed to explore the territorial relations between Beibei and Chongqing urban area which is in the process of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Firstly, this paper examined the whole process of the two areas＇ development. Based on the data of traffic and residents trip surveys, we argued that the relations between Beibei and Chongqing urban area were different from that of the classic satellite town theory in urban geography. Beibei had been an important functional area of Chongqing urban area, and attracted lots of jobs and industry. The research showed that links between two areas shrink as the distance decay. And this characteristic had some relations with local economy, social relationships. At last, we conducted an explaining theory framework, which included economic, social, political and transportation factors, and concluded that the political factors played most important roles in this process, such as urban planning, and transportation investment.