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| THE SPATIAL STRUCTURE OF THE COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMENT PLACES UNDER THE URBAN COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT |
| YU Xiang-yang, WANG Xing-zhong |
| Institute of Human Geography, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an 710061, China |
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Abstract The evaluation of the quality of the urban social life spaces by urban social geography has involved the spatial structure of urban social welfare facilities.With the development of society and economy, the advancement of urban residents' cultural quality and their rising income, and their prolonged leisure time, a large number of commercial entertainment places have sprung up in urban areas, which draws the attention of the academic circle.However, neither domestic nor foreign geographers have paid much attention to the research in this regard.Based on a brief summary of the studies, both at home and abroad, of the commercial entertainment places in urban areas, from the perspective of humanism, and employing the behavioral and positivism methodologies, this paper tries to discover the special formation and distribution laws of the commercial entertainment places in urban areas;meanwhile, taking the urban communities and places as two basic units in the study of the urban social life spaces, the paper probes into the contents and structures of the commercial entertainment places in urban areas, as well as their relationship with the quality of the urban social life spaces, so as to further discover the nature of the quality of the urban social life spaces, and to enrich the basic concepts of the regulation and adjustment of urban communities.
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Received: 15 February 2003
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2003, Vol. 18 
