Abstract：From the aspects of urban social geography and urban (social) spatial relation, urban social-life spatial structure consists of two basic units, namely urban communities and urban places. Retail places is one kind of the four places (retail places、firms、entertainment places and hotels) where the recreation and entertainment behavior, included in citizen's daily life activities, takes place. Moreover, the entertainment places attached to or derived from retailing strengthen the living function of Retailing. Therefore, the category、structure and spatial pattern of the entertainment places attached to or derived from retailing would significantly reveal the quality of urban social-culture living space.
The commercial entertainment places have been studied from several different subjects. But, as for the spatial structure of those places, they have been studied mainly by three subjects, such as sociology, economics and geography. Now, the spatial relation of entertainment attached or derived from retailing has been explored initially by the foreign scholars from the angle of human behavior. Rather than being restricted to the location of traditional retailing centers、shopping mall, the study of micro-location is about the inner spatial structure of shopping mall, especially the configuration of entertainment places, in suburb.
This paper, from the multi-subjects angle of urban social geography and human-culture ecology, analyses and summarizes the study contents、outcomes and the spatial function、(social) spatial relation of the entertainment places attached to or derived from retailing in Western countries.
韩光明, 王兴中. 国外对零售业及其附生——衍生的营业性娱乐场所的空间关系研究[J]. 人文地理, 2006, 21(4): 13-19,6.
HAN Guang-ming, WANG Xing-zhong. THE STUDY OF SPATIAL RELATION OF RETAILING AND ENTERTAINMENT PLACES ATTACHED TO RETAILING IN WESTERN COUNTRIES. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2006, 21(4): 13-19,6.
