Abstract：Life space, asthe projection of urban residents' activities in the dimension of space, is always changing. Numbers of suburban communities have emerged since suburbanization started in Beijing, among which there are many large ones that attract lots of attention of scholars. Compared with before, the life space of the residents in these large communities has changed dramatically. This paper divides life space into four kinds, including residential space, working one, shopping one and entertainment. Based on questionnaires and interviews of the residents in Huilongguan, a typical large community in the suburb of Beijing, the authors focus on the differences of life space between the present and ten years ago. This investigation uses the methods of quantitative analysis and qualitative one, and the perspectives of macro and micro, to study residents' daily lives. Considering that the previous studies mainly concentrate on one kind of life space, the innovation of this study is to analyze all the four kinds of life space as a whole and pay attention to a special group, i.e. suburbanites. The result shows that in recent ten years, this kind of large community plays an important role in the formation of residential suburbanization and the decentralization of leisure and shopping space. Suburbanites have the strong ability to bear the challenge of the long-distance commuting between their houses and working places. In the end of the discussion, the mechanism is discussed and suggestions to urban planning are made. When constructing a large suburb community, we should take full account of its connection with the city working clusters and public transport sites.
李斐然, 冯健, 刘杰, 李泽林. 基于活动类型的郊区大型居住区居民生活空间重构——以回龙观为例[J]. 人文地理, 2013, 28(3): 27-33,113.
LI Fei-ran, FENG Jian, LIU Jie, LI Ze-lin. THE LIFE TIME AND SPACE RECONFIGURATION OF RESIDENTS IN LARGE COMMUNITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF SUBURBANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF HUILONGGUAN. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2013, 28(3): 27-33,113.
