西方办公活动区位研究始于20世纪20年代,是地理学关于生产性服务业区位研究中相对成熟的重要领域。本文以时间为线索,将办公区位研究的进程划分为萌芽阶段、拓展阶段、系统化阶段和成熟阶段;并归纳了各个阶段的主要研究内容.研究角度及不同流派的办公区位理论的发展。研究发现,西方早期办公活动区位呈现强烈的中心性倾向,进入后工业时代以来,受信息技术的影响,办公活动区位出现了郊区化和非CBD倾向。最后总结了西方办公活动区位研究存在的一些问题,如统计数据的限制、理论体系不成熟、城市内部尺度研究不足及信息技术影响下办公活动区位研究不深入等问题,并展望了未来研究的发展趋势。
This paper focuses on the systematic and overall literature review on office activities location in western countries from the 1926 to the 21st century which can be divided into four stages: the research beginning stage, development stage, post-industrialism stage and Maturation stage of office location research. Furthermore, this paper summarized the main research topics, angles and the different schools of thought in office location research. The authors concluded that the location of office activities presented to be strong central tendencies in the early stage, in the post-industrialism stage, influenced by the information technology, location of office activities presented to be suburbanization and non-CBD tendencies. Finally, this paper pointed out some problems such as the constrain of office data, the lack of well developed theoretical system and insufficient in the inter-urban research of office location and few research focused on the office location influenced by information technologies, etc. The authors gives some suggestions on research of office location in the future.