城市居民职住空间关系是指城市居民居住地和工作地之间的社会空间关系,是城市空间结构的重要研究内容。体制转型时期中国城市居民职住空间关系正在经历着翻天覆地的变化。本文主要从职住空间关系研究学派、职住空间平衡和城市通勤、居住选择和居住空间分异等方面对国内外相关研究进行述评,认为国内相关研究应注重社会调查,加强个体层面的研究,从体制转型和个体社会经济特征等角度寻求城市居民职住空间关系及其演化的形成机制,并注重特殊群体,如外来人口、城市贫困人口和原单位制社区居民等社会群体的职住空间关系和社会空间后果研究。

spatial relationship between employment and residential location is about socio-spatial relationship between urban residents' employment and residential location which is an important research area of urban spatial structure.Those socio-spatial relationships between employment and residential location of urban residents have experienced great change during the system transitional period in Chinese cities.This paper intended to review relative research of spatial relationship between urban residents' employment and residential location in domestic and abroad,and provided useful references for related research and for governments at all levels to formulate relevant policies in domestic.Related research on research school of spatial relationship between employment and residential location,job-housing spatial balance,urban commuting,residential choice and residential spatial differentiation etc.at domestic and abroad has been reviewed in this paper.Obtaining research materials through scientific and rational social survey should be emphasized because of lacking research data at the individual level in domestic research,so the impact factors and formational mechanism of spatial relationship between urban residents' employment and residential location could be analyzed in-depth through relating the spatial relationship between urban residents' employment and residential location to the spatial factors and individuals' socio-economic characteristics,even urban form and spatial structure.At the same time,special groups' spatial relationship between urban residents' employment and residential location,especially floating population,the urban poverty population and public housing dwellers and original danwei community residents etc.should be paid more attention to in relative research area in China.