关键词: 夜间消费, 时间节奏, 空间结构, 深圳市

Abstract:

Since the 1970s, there has been an obvious tendency in western countries to approach to humanistic, micro-level and multidisciplinary studies of human geography, hence providing a more comprehensive understanding of their increasingly diversified cities.This paper is concerned with consumer activities at night, which has long been neglected in geographical studies in China. Based on the questionnaire survey and interviews on consumer behavior of Shenzhen residents, the authors analyzed the general characteris tics of consumer activities at night, especially their temporal-spatial charact eristics. Further, the author made correlated analyses in terms of residents' a ttributes. The characteristics of consumer activities of Shenzhen residents at night can be summarized as follows: (1) The consumer activities of Shenzhen resi dents at night flourish in general and the main types of consuming activities are shopping, eating & drinking and entertainment; (2) the average consuming time does not last long and consuming at deep night happens less frequently compared with that in western countries; (3) the frequency of consuming activities at night is relatively low; (4) the spatial characteristic of consumer activities at n ight is according to the distance decaylaw and can be abstracted as a concentri c-circle-structure: the inner circle with a radius of 1km is the primary space,the middle circle with a radius of 5km is the major space and the outer circle with a radius of 10km is the daily space; and (5) the activity space of different types of consumer activities at night also varies: the inner circle with aver aged 2km radius is shopping space, the middle circle with averaged 3km radius is eating, drinking & entertainment space and the outer circle with averaged 4.5- 5km is business and activity in gymnasium space.

Key words: consumer activities at night, time-rhythm, spatia structure, Shenzhen city