Abstract：Jobs-housing spatial organization is one of the most important composes of a city's inner spatial structure, and the relationship between jobs and residential space has a significant impact on the rationality of urban spatial distribution and the low-carbon of urban operation. As the emerging of philosophical thoughts such as humanism, behaviorism and structuralism in human geography field, the internal spatial structure has gradually become an important topic of urban geography and urban planning. Jobs and residential spaces are the basic units of urban inner space, and has gradually become an important research object of related disciplines, particularly in the process of urban spatial restruction, the topic on jobs-housing spatial organization has got extensive attention in geography circles. The relative studies of foreign scholars began earlier, date from 1960s, and have gradually formulated a perfect basic theory system and provided important conferences for domestic relative researches in China. And the domestic studies started late, date from 1980s, in the context of rapid spatial reconstruction and drastic institutional transformation in city areas, urban spatial structure with the unit yard as the basic unit in the period of planned economy collapsed step by step and the spatial pattern of traditional "jobs-housing approachable" is broken, the phenomenon of jobs-housing spatial mismatch in urban areas is more and more general and obvious. The paper reviews the newest progress of researches on jobs-housing spatial matching from home and abroad two aspects, and then compares the differences in foreign and domestic relative researches in the aspects of researches on basic theory, research contents, research methods and the application of relative theories. The study indicates that, in the past half century, foreign scholars have done a mass of theoretic and empirical researches on urban jobs-housing matching, mainly put emphasis on the fundamental theoretical researches of jobs-housing matching, the measurement of jobs-housing matching, the impacts of jobs-housing mismatch on traffic and employment, the mechanisms of jobs-housing mismatch, etc. In the last, bases on the comparative analysis above, the paper points out the problems and shortcomings of current domestic researches, in order to provide some references for future studies to some degree.
