中文摘要：

人居环境是与人居活动、人居文化密切相关的地表空间。总结了国内学者开展人居环境研究的现状,尝试对人居环境研究的地理尺度进行划分,对不同地理尺度下人居环境的内涵、研究内容、研究主体、研究方法以及人居环境与其他学科的相关性研究等方面进行系统梳理。1人居环境的研究方向日益综合化、系统化、微观化;2人居环境的资料搜集、数据获取、模型方法日益现代化、信息化、虚拟化;3同时也存在一些不足,如不同地理尺度人居环境的概念并不统一、人居环境的过程与机理研究不足。据此提出了未来不同地理尺度人居环境的研究动向及前瞻趋势。

英文摘要：

In the past several decades, China experienced reform and the opening up of the economy and society, acceleration of urbanization, at the same time, the emergency of complex issues in urban and regional is always existing, there is a pressing need to revisit the traditional concept and academic practices concerning human settlements. Human settlements are the earth＇s surface space which is closely related to human activities,human culture. Based on a review of domestic scholars＇ research on human settlements, we attempt to adopt geographic scale division in the research of human settlements, and we systematically summarize the connotation, research contents, research subjects and research methods in different geographic scale of human settlements, as well as the correlation studies of human settlements and other disciplines. It is made as an overall view that： 1）The research direction of human settlements increasingly integrated, systematic, microstructure; 2）The data collection, data acquisition, model method of human settlements increasingly modern, information technology, virtualization; 3）At the same time, there are also some shortcomings, such as the concept of different geographic scale of human settlements are not uniform, the study of process mechanism of human settlements is inadequate. Accordingly we proposed some research trends and future perspective for the study on geographic scale of human settlements.