# Logistics Space: A Literature Review from the Sustainability Perspective
## 1 Introduction  
Under the background of economic globalization and regional economic integration, increasingly products are circulating, producing, selling and consuming around the world. Logistics, as the new engine of economic growth, plays a core role in overcoming the constraints of time-space between producers and the markets they serve. Logistics is the physical flow of goods from the place of supply to the receiving place. According to actual needs, the basic functions of transportation, storage, loading and unloading, handling, packaging, distribution processing, distribution, recycling, and information processing are organically combined. Industrial space refers to the economic phenomenon in which a certain industry combines spatial distribution and industry within a country or region. Logistics space is a kind of industrial space, which refers to the projection of urban logistics activities (professional markets, logistics companies, logistics nodes, logistics infrastructure) in the geographical space [1]. In order to speed up urbanization, the government blindly planned a large number of logistics facilities. On the one hand, this has intensified the increasingly prominent contradiction of urban land use, and on the other hand caused the waste of logistics resources. The spatial layout and evolution of urban logistics facilities is an important force driving urban economic and spatial development. Data from large cargo surveys in the Tokyo metropolitan area show that the integration of logistics facilities has increased the efficiency of logistics and transportation by 4% [2]. The spatial concentration of logistics companies promotes the improvement of cooperation and value-added services between enterprises [3]. Research from the perspective of geography mainlyincludes the distribution law and influencing factors of logistics space. [PERSON] studies the distribution of storage facilities in the United States from a geographical perspective, and found that the accessibility of air and road transport networks strongly influenced the location of storage sites [4]. [PERSON] analyzes the locational dynamics of logistics facilities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and found that logistics facilities moved outward by 26% in only 10 years [5]. In addition, Gothenburg, Atlanta, Zurich, and other places also showed the phenomenon of logistics sprawl [6; 7; 8]. [PERSON] analyzes two important characteristics of logistics industry geography: logistics sprawl and polarization logistics activities. Logistics sprawl has led to changes in the geographical location of urban cargo, increased mileage and corresponding emissions of trucks, and affected the commuting of logistics employment [9]. Land availability and its costs, transportation infrastructure and government policies are important factors influencing the evolution of logistics space. [PERSON] divides the factors that affecting the spatial dynamics of the California logistics industry into economic development policies, metropolitan size, economic structure and physical geography [10]. [PERSON] studies the impact of accessibility on the location of logistics companies, while [PERSON] explains the reasons for the relocation of logistics facilities from land use and freight exclusion [9; 11]. [PERSON] finds that transportation infrastructure has a positive impact on transportation and logistics clusters [12]. By studying the traditional disciplines of logistics, economics and transportation science have no in-depth research on logistics space, and logistics is still relatively undeveloped from the perspective of geography [13]. Logistics space as an important part of the industrial space, some scholars study the spatial aggregation and distribution of the logistics industry from the industrial space [14]. More scholars have examined the spatial patterns of logistics activities and related planning policy issues based on case studies [8]. The constant increase of logistics demand has put forward higher requirements for the development of modern logistics.