RESEARCH PROGRESS OF SPATIAL PATTERNS AND THEIR FORMATION MECHANISM OF WHOLESALE BUSINESS
PAN Yu-juan1, CAO Xiao-shu2
1. Zhuhai Urban Planning and Design Institute, Zhuhai 519000, China;
2. School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Abstract：Wholesale business and retail business belong to the business flow, which are the important parts of the circulation. Compared to retail business, the achievement of studies about spatial patterns and their mechanism of wholesale business are not enough. By literature reviewing, this paper concludes that the research process is distributed into three stages. The first is from 1930S to 1960S, the location theory relates to the content of the wholesale location. And under the impact of the Central Place Theory put forward by Christaller, many scholars inclines to use indicators about wholesale trade to measure the central character of the cities. The second is from 1970S to 1990S, a special study of the location of wholesale business is made in 1970, and their mechanism is discussed more deeply than before. At the same time, to explore the urban system through the wholesale trade studies is also more common. The third is since the mid-1990s, the space optimization of wholesale business and the integration of wholesale business and modern logistics activity are got more attention. In China, studies about the wholesale business start late(from the 1990s until now there is only 20 years) and mainly center on the wholesale markets, especially on the spatial patterns of wholesale markets and their influential factors, lacking the research of space evolution and its formation mechanism. Besides, although the wholesale market is one kind of logistics activity nodes in the city, its spatial patterns of goods flow are often neglected by scholars. Furthermore, scholars also pay little attention to the space separation of wholesale trade activity and logistics activity. Taking wholesale business into the logistics activities is also not commonly seen in the works about the urban logistics activity studies.
潘裕娟, 曹小曙. 批发业空间及其形成机制研究综述[J]. 人文地理, 2014, 29(1): 15-19.
PAN Yu-juan, CAO Xiao-shu. RESEARCH PROGRESS OF SPATIAL PATTERNS AND THEIR FORMATION MECHANISM OF WHOLESALE BUSINESS. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2014, 29(1): 15-19.
