The application of big data provides a new angle of view on investigating whether, and if so, here how to define the urban center through analyzing urban spatial morphology intrinsically interacts with its functions.This article, using empirical research of the Beijing city, first seeking to explore spatial configuration-the complex relation between any pair of individual spaces regarding other contextual spaces – of urban network collected from Baidu.And then, focusing on conducting a statistical correlation between the configurational patterns of urban network and the aggregation patterns of functions.
Based on the different patterns of aggregation or dispersion of those functions we discussed, as well as the multi-scale syntactic location choice underlying those patterns, it then can be identified four types of centers in the johnny cash style clothing Beijing city, which may be called active center, ordinary center, brand centers and specified center, as well as the extent to which spatial layout influences functional distribution.