Progress and Trends of Main Areas in Urban Geography in the West

In recent years, in new economy and globalization, with the urban dramatic changes and the chan- ges of cognitive perspective, the research areas has been adjusted of urban geography, this paper examines the progress of major research field of modern urban geography including postmodern city, global city and global city region, information urban geography, urban social geography, low carbon city. We point out the deve- lopmental trend of urban geography: integration and diversification of cognitive path for studies of urban geography; multi-scale study; stressing the study of circulation space and consumption space in cities; empha- sizing the innovation function and innovation structure; emphasizing socialization trend and manage- ment trend from the contents of research; and pay more attention to research urban geographical branch and its overlapping and its merging.