中文摘要：

城市化的内在协调性是城市（区域乃至国家）综合竞争力、国民生计及可持续发展能力的综合体现。基于对城市化概念与内涵的认知——城市化是一个“人口-经济-空间”三维一体的过程，其中人是行为主体，经济是驱动力，空间是载体，构建了城市化综合测度指标，并运用时序全局主成分分析法，对2000年以来湖北省12个地级市的城市化层级结构演变过程及趋势进行了分析。结果表明湖北省城市化具有如下特征：①城市化总量时序演变上呈现出明显的上升趋势，且存在经济城市化〉空间城市化〉综合城市化〉人口城市化的变化趋势，但也表现出一定程度的粗放增长的内在特征；②整个城市化过程是一个由人口城市化导向型向经济城市化导向型转变的过程；③城市化相关系数的时序演变与人口城市化集聚程度〉空间城市化集聚程度〉经济城市化集聚程度的演变趋势密切相关，表明综合城市化与人口城市化的地域协调性最高，而与经济的最低；④城市化等级体系空间结构及其时序演变具有首位度城市层级结构、城市层级结构动态演变，以及城市化地域协调性不强等特征；最后就城市化的协调发展提出对策和建议。为我国城市化可持续发展研究以及湖北省今后的城市化发展战略提供了理论借鉴和实践指导。

英文摘要：

The internal coordination of urbanization is the integrated embodiment of cites ＇ （regional and national） overall competitiveness, national livelihood and sustainable development. Therefore it is very important to recognize and choose our country urbanization way. Based on the understanding of the concept on the urbanization,that the urbanization is a ＂population-economy-space＂ trine progress,in which people is the actor,economy is the driving factors,while space is the vector. The article constructed the comprehensive measure indicators of urbanization, used the all-around principal component analysis method, took the 12 prefecture-level cities in Hubei Province as the research object,and made use of the data of 2000, 2005 and 2008, to measure the urbanization level of population, economy and space comprehensively, to analyze the evolution trend and hierarchical structure. The result showed that.（1）the evolution of urbaniza- tion on the total amount of time showed a clear upward trend, and showed the trend that the economy urbanization〉the spatial urbanization〉the comprehensive urbanization〉the population urbanization, but also showed a certain degree of inherent characteristics of extensive growth; （2）the whole urbanization progress led by the population urbanization in 2000 changed to economy urbanization in 2008, it means that the economy urbanization comes to lead the population urbanization,the spatial urbanization;（3）the temporal correlation of urbanization has a close relationship with spatial polarization degrees, while the spatial po- larization degrees of the 12 prefecture-level cities in Hubei Province exist the following trend that the popu- lation urbanization polarization〉the spatial urbanization polarization〉the economy urbanization polariza- tion,and the comprehensive urbanization polarization has a highest correlation with the population urbanization polarization,the comprehensive urbanization polarization has a lowest correlation with the economy urbanization pol