居民日常活动空间和城市日常活动系统是人类空间行为研究中的重要内容,直接反映行为空间形成机制、分布特征及其与实体空间的相互关系,并为城市社会生活及其空间体系研究提供了重要的微观视角。通过行为空间研究中若干关键问题进行探讨,认为基于日常活动空间的活动分析法能够很好的整合和处理这些问题,在对活动分析法相关概念和几个重要方法介绍的基础上,尝试提出基于活动分析法的人类空间行为研究的思路与框架。
Since the 1960s, along with the transition of developmental focus from economic issues to social issues, geographers realized that human spatial behavior was not as simple as they thought before. The knowledge of aggregate patterns of human spatial behavior helped little to solve new problems, and research addressing micro-level of individual behavior then became one of the main directions of geography. Action space is the kernel subject of behavior geography. Related research puts individual in the context of urban environment and focuses on how they image and interact with the physical environment. As one important part of action space, activity spaces refer to the subset of all locations within which an individual has direct contact as a result of his or her day-to-day activities. They represent a process through which residents gain information about and attach meaning to our environment. What' s more, researches on activity spaces integrated the four key problems of action space: the colligation of time and space, the behavioral mechanism of choice and constraints, the link between activity and travel, and the impacts of socio-economic structure. As a result, such perspective has developed into an activity approach to individual and household travel-activity behavior as well as urban space analysis. Therein, activity patterns are defined by time budget, its location and related travel, and all residents' activity spaces constitute urban activity system. Both of the two are the main research objects. As to methodology, three important items are mentioned. Time-space budget and time-geography are the most important analysis tools. Besides, recently developed stated preference method has risen to help go deep into behavior studies. In China, although such research has showed up to expanding the field, it is still far from well-developed both on theory and methodology. This paper thus tries to propose a research framework of action space based on daily activity analysis, which is more comprehensive than th