NEW TENDENCY OF LOCATION THEORY IN INFORMATION AGE
通过文献分析，探讨信息通信技术如何改变区位理论，指出区位变量软化、选择尺度全球化、行为者理性化、知识产业聚焦以及中心地虚拟化等新趋势。
Nowadays,ICT is used into the branches of society and economy,leading to transformation of the mode of production and living,which provides the stage of research for different science.As well as the other science,the theory of location,which aims at the selection of the place and optimal of space,has many new areas to deepen and exploit in the information age.In the paper,by analyzing the literatures,the author considers the tendency of the Location Theory is location variables soft,the selection scale global,the actor realized,knowledge industry focal,and the Centers Place location virtual.With the development of ICT,information is an increasing important economic resource,and the spatial distribution of information has vital effect on the location of enterprises and institutions,information therefore is a location factor. Because of the codified information and the physical economic factors move freely while the institutions and culture is of embeddness hard to move in the world,the social and culture location factors have more effect on the actor's location.And the agglomeration factors also has attracted new respective because of the non-trade-dependence,and the research of traditional industry location turn into that of new districts which the agglomeration of SME is focal.In the information age,there is no isolated state,so the research on TNC location and the theory of global location is the hotspot.With the information explosion,the location researcher hold the location actor is not one with perfect information but one with imperfect information,pay much attention to such factors,e.g.the informational structure and its relation,non-equilibrium information between the actors.Because knowledge is the first factor in the productivity,the research on location of ICT industry,knowledge industry and the RD establishment is the core research of industry location,and the location of ICT industry trends flexible,the infrastructure networking,and innovation increasingly hot.In information age,urban play an important role in information creation,transfer,consumption,and the information service function of urban for hinterland is strengthen while the function of production and material service lessen,so the Central Place Theory emerges virtual.