信息时代空间结构研究新进展

以信息技术为主线 ,从新的研究课题、研究范式的转变及研究重点三个方面将西方学术界对信息时代区域与城市空间结构及其相关研究进行了总结。文章指出 ,信息技术的进步及其应用使得地理学处于不断的变化之中 ,对信息活动的关注使得新的研究课题和分支学科不断涌现。同时 ,信息技术与社会的互动作用也改变着传统的思维范式。主要的研究内容总结如下 :1)赛伯空间———新的空间逻辑 ;2 )区位研究 ,尤其是生产性服务业研究 ;3)空间的分散与集中、均衡与非均衡发展 ;4 )创新网络与区域空间结构 ;5 )信息发展模式的空间结果 ;6 )新空间极化现象。

New perspectives on spatial structure research in information era

Spatial structure is the core topics of geography and planning research. Since the 1970s, information technology has begun to affect urban and regional socio economic development. Especially since the 1990s, global informatization characterized by Internet and mobile telecommunication has made urban and regional development face more rapid and more comprehensive transformation. Western academic fields have done lots of research on this new topic. Based on western literatures, this paper reviews relative research on spatial structure under information era from three points, which are: 1) new research topics; 2) shift of research paradigms;and 3) main research contents. With rapid advancement of information technology and its application, geography begins to face continuous challenge, and attention to information activities makes new research topics and new branches emerging. Meanwhile, interaction between information and society also leads to changes in traditional research paradigm. The main research contents are summarized as follows: 1) Cyber space-new spatial logic; 2) location research; 3) decentralization & centralization and even & uneven development of space; 4) innovation network and regional spatial structure; 5) spatial outcome of information development mode; and 6) new spatial polarization.