流动商贩的空间分布有较大的临时性和变化性,但在各种不同因素的影响下,也具有一定的特征性。研究其分布特征和影响因素对从空间上引导该非正规经济的发展具有积极意义,而已有从空间角度出发的非正规经济研究成果较少。本文主要采用实证研究的方法,选取广州中山大道西路段的流动商贩为典型案例,从空间的角度对流动商贩这种非正规经济来进行研究。研究发现,流动商贩的空间分布具有时间、空间和类型构成三个特征。影响其分布特征的空间界面因素包括界面用地性质、权属以及界面空间特征等,揭示流动摊贩空间集聚的根源,为城市的规划管理和建设提供一定参考。

Street hawker is a familiar phenomenon in lots of cities of China and many other countries. Most of the street hawkers are official illegally without a license. It is a kind of informal economy by occupying pavements, pedestrian overpasses, entrance of residential communities or supermarkets, surrounding region of subway stations and many other public space for economic gain. Though the existing of street hawker offers convenience to urban residents and sometimes brings validity of a city, it also has a detrimental effect on traffic and cityscape. The distribution of the street hawkers is quite floating and temporary but is still greatly impacted by some factors. It has positive meaning to study the characteristic of spatial distribution and influencing factors of the street hawkers. So far, researches study on spatial distribution of informal economy has not rich achievements yet, which needs more attention to study the informal economy in a spatial view.
This research chose the street hawkers on west Zhongshan Road as a topic cases to study their spatial distribution. Spatial data was accessed by using observation, maps marking method and supplement interviews, which were also verified by the relevant news and reports. The research finds that the distribution of street hawkers has distinct spatial agglomeration. Though with a temporal and floating appearance, there are some regular rules of the spatial distribution of street hawkers, which are affected by the interface of land use, interface of land property, and interface of spatial characteristics. Among these, the interface of land use and land property with an attraction of people and helping to form a stream of pedestrians, is more likely to become a preferable place for street hawkers. More details are stated in the article to reveal the root of street hawkers, so that it might give some illumination to urban planning for building a harmonious and genial city.