中文摘要：

对国内城市空间扩展特征与模式、城市空间扩展效益、城市空间扩展机理及城市空间扩展对策与模拟4个层面的相关文献梳理和分析表明，城市空间扩展实质是一个以“人”的需求为主体、自然性和社会性耦合依存的地域表达过程，决定了其扩展进程的地域性、阶段性和区域性等个性与共性并存的特征属性，也就决定了其研究内容的复杂综合性和个性与共性共表的必然性与必要性。然而，现有研究不仅存在样本单元不全面、类型比较分析欠缺、个案分析较多、共性规律总结不够的不足，而且在研究内容、研究方法及数据来源上存在较大的缺陷，有待今后进一步研究。因此，中国城市空间扩展的后续研究应该强化样本单元的多元化、类比化；加强研究内容的综合化，尤其强调城市空间扩展合理性评价及其指标体系构建以及城市空间扩展对策的中国化、本土化；加强研究方法与数据来源的丰富性和科学性（强调定量分析），彰显其扩展的个性特征和共性规律性，为对应的城市和区域（乃至国家）层面的规划与管理调控提供依据与参考。

英文摘要：

Based on the summarizing the progress in research on China＇ s urban spatial expansion from the perspectives of the characteristics and pattern of urban spatial expansion, the efficiency of urban spatial expansion, the mechanism of urban spatial expansion and the countermeasure and simulative prediction of urban spatial expansion, this study pointed out that： urban spatial expansion actually is a geographical expression process that human needs occupies the dominant position, while natural and social coexist, which makes the progress of urban spatial expansion full of territorial, phased and regional characteristics that individual characteristics and common law coexist, and further decides the complexity and coexist of individual characteristics and common law of the research content on urban spatial expansion. However, in current study, there not only exist the problems that sample unit is not comprehensive and lack of type study, and the summaries of common law are not enough, but also exist big defects on the research content arid research data, which need a further study in the future. Therefore, based on these, this study thinks that ： the study of China＇ s urban spatial expansion in the future, on the sample unit should be more diversification and analogy, on the research content should be more complication, especially should emphasize the reasonable evaluation index system of China＇ s urban spatial expansion, and the suitability to the countermeasure of China＇ s urban spatial expansion, on the research method and research data should be more abundant and scientific （stress the quantitative analysis） in order to grasp its individual characteristics and common law of China＇ s urban spatial expansion, and provide some basis and conferences to the corresponding urban and regional （even national） planning and management control.