时间地理学的起源,主要概念及其应用

时间地理学是瑞典地理学家哈格斯特朗及其领导的隆德大学研究小组提出的，最初应用于城市规划中的居民日常活动与设施规划的计算机模拟模型中。７０年代末以前的时间地理学应用研究是沿哈格斯特朗的基本观点进行的，主要表现在对区域规划、人地关系及社会史的研究中。进入８０年代以后的应用研究则在个人生活与社会结构关系、女性地理学、福利地理学及城市地域研究、城市交通规划等方面有创造性的展开。

TIME GEOGRAPHY: ITS ORIGIN, KEY CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS

Time geography was originally developed by Swedish geographer, Torsten Hgerstrand and his associates at the Lund University, which first applied study using time geographical approach was a computer simulation model of daily activity programmes in urban planning. After a briefly explanation of the points at issues in time geography, this paper introduces time geography's key concepts such as path, prism and constrain, and stressly reviews its various applications. Before the end of the 1970s, time geography was applied mainly to the studies of to regional planning, human environment relationship and social history along Hgerstrand's basic viewpoint, but since entering the 1980s time geographical approach have been extended to various fields such as the research of relationship between individual behavior and social structure, gender geography, warfare geography and urban area study, etc.