在"重返海洋"世纪背景下，传统海洋聚落价值被重新认知，浙东沿海传统商贸聚落作为其重要组成，在海洋文化价值重构与浙东经济快速发展并存的当下具有重要研究意义。 本研究立足海洋文化视野，以聚落形态为研究客体，采用要素分析等方法，结合GIS技术应用，进行下述研究：一、通过梳理海洋商贸聚落与航路开发依存关系，把握浙东沿海商贸聚落发展流变与空间分布；二、以宁波为个案，从主体构成--聚落生成角度解析海洋社会主导力量变迁与聚落形态生成多变性之间的关系；第三、对浙东沿海传统商贸聚落形态构成普遍规律进行探索，并对宗教场所这一海洋社会凝聚核心做长时段、整体性研究，解析浙东海洋文化纵横两个维度构成的复杂；第四、建立宁波、澳门比较系，通过对两者生成机制、宗教要素比较，明确浙东沿海传统商贸聚落形态地域特征。通过研究，厘定海洋商贸聚落最为重要的文化资产，提出其可持续发展的相关建议与对策，为传统海洋聚落保存提供借鉴。

Today, Marine culture has become the importent subject of culture development, and tridational coastal settlemen is so special that it becomes the foucus in many research, which will be depended the theoretical study of Marie culture. The object of the research is the coastal commercial settlement in eastern Zhejiang, and the treatment focus on the "evolution" and "inheritance" of traditional settlment. Based on this, the structure of the research can be roughly divided into the following three parts. Firstly, The research starts from a real-state investigation on the current situation, and then trace the evolution process of coastal commercial settlements in eastern Zhejiang in different historical period, in order to provide a background for the following study. Secondly, characteristics of type property of coastal commercial settlement in eastern Zhejiang are identified and confirmed through comparison with Macao. In addition, a summary and induction of the internal genes of the evolution and inheritance of traditional costal commercial settlements are made. Thirdly, accroding to the progress of social changes and reforms, under the guidance principles of seeking truth from facts and the view of scientific development, a development prospect of coastal traditional settlement is put forward .