Abstract In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of metropolitan areas has remained unknown so far. To fill this gap, the article explains the driving factors of these changes using a systematic review method. To this end, 115 peer-reviewed scientific articles published from 1999 to 2019 were carefully analyzed. According to the results, 4 main dimensions including contextual and intrinsic, incentive and disincentive, developmental, and transformative were identified in this regard. This article argues that spatial structure subject to the driving factors have undergone vast changes over the past two decades, and the metropolitan areas have been shifting from concentrated and compact patterns toward decentralized and dispersed patterns.

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大都市区空间结构形成、发展与变化的驱动因素：系统评价

摘要 近几十年来，关于都市圈空间结构的文章很多，但对解释都市圈空间结构变化驱动因素的研究至今仍是未知数。为了填补这一空白，本文使用系统评价方法解释了这些变化的驱动因素。为此，对 1999 年至 2019 年发表的 115 篇同行评审科学文章进行了仔细分析。根据结果​​，在这方面确定了 4 个主要维度，包括情境和内在、激励和抑制、发展和变革。本文认为受驱动因素影响的空间结构在过去的二十年中发生了巨大的变化，