Abstract:

Realizing the “two-way travel” between cities and youth is the core of the youth development city. The existing studies have paid more attention to the one-way perspective of city support policies for youth，but not enough attention to the leading and participatory role of youth in cities. Based on the perspective of“two-way travel”，this paper uses the analytical framework of structural theory to reveal the theoretical connotation and characteristics of youth development cities from the level of“structure-action” interaction，including the two interaction dimensions of“cities are more friendly to youth” at the structural level and “youth are more productive in cities” at the actor level. The index system includes 6 first-level indicators，17 second-level indicators and 57 third-level indicators，with the help of the AHP-entropy weight method to set the weights，coupling coordination model is used to analyze the coupling coordination level of urban development and youth development. At present，high-quality construction of youth development cities should make great efforts in the four key points of planning youth careers, responding to youth needs，promoting youth contributions，and drawing youth portraits，and strive to transform youth development cities from“construction drawings” to “real scene paintings”.

Key words:

youth development city, structural theory, index system, AHP-entropy weight method, coupling coordination model