本文目的是对1985-2010年广州市社会空间结构演变进行跟踪研究。首先,利用第六次全国人口普查数据,运用因子生态分析方法对广州市2010年社会区进行分析,提取出7个主因子并划分7类社会区;并与2000年和1985年的广州市社会区研究作对比。结果发现：① 社会区影响主因子大多具有持续性,且持续作用在增强,个别非持续性主因子具有鲜明的时代特征;② 1985-2000年,社会区演变以类型更替为主,地域空间分异为辅,2000-2010年,则反之;③ 证实了2000年研究提出的基于老城区发展、基于工业和教育“飞地”发展和基于农村社区发展的社会区演变模式存在,同时总结出基于近郊小城镇发展的社会区演变新模式;④ 社会空间结构演变受市场机制、行政机制和家庭生命周期机制共同作用。

Research into urban socio-spatial structure was first introduced to Chinese geographers in 1986. Since the beginning of the free-market economic reform in 1987, Chinese cities have changed rapidly and have attracted substantial attention from academia. Chinese case studies have predominantly concerned megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. As the pioneer of China's reform and opening-up, Guangzhou is representative of large Chinese cities in the transformation of the socio-spatial structure. The first research was initiated in the social areas of Guangzhou in 1985. Zhou used data from the fifth population census of 2000 to analyze the social areas of Guangzhou and identified three evolution modes of the socio-spatial structure: the first is based on the development of the old city, the second fouses on the development of the educational or industrial "enclave", and the third presents the development of agricultural areas. The research on the evolution of urban socio-spatial structure, as a vital part of urban geography study, needs a long-term follow-up survey and analysis. Thus, using the Factor Ecological Analysis (FEA), this paper analyzes the social area in Guangzhou with the Sixth National Population Census data of 2010, and further divides the social area into 7 sub-types based on the 7 main factors. Comparing the studies of the 2000s and 1985, we found that: (1) Most of the principal factors are available for the years of 1985-2010, and they have played an increasingly important role during the period studied. In addition, some individual principal factors only appear in a certain year, thus have strong distinct characteristics. (2) The evolution of social areas in Guangzhou has been mainly characterized by type conversion and followed by regional spatial differentiation in 1985-2000; and vice versa in 2000-2010. (3) This study further found evidence of the three evolution modes proposed in 2000 based on the development of the old town, development of enclave of industry and education, and development of the rural community; then it put forward a new model based on the development of the social areas in suburban towns; (4) The market mechanism, administrative mechanism and the family life cycle mechanism work together to the evolution of socio-spatial structure.