| As the extension and dissimilation of traditional entity space, the issue of informational city space is unavailable research object in the subject of architecture and urban design. The paper try hard to set up the space conception of informational city and forecast the development trend of urban space in information age, through studying the points of view in the fields of philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, culture, geography, architecture and information technology.The limit of urban space extending ceaseless, substantial space and virtual space had already coexisted in the information city. Through increasing the degree of city information, there are some fire-new special forms, such as urban image media space and virtual space. High-tech industrial park directed by information technology shaped the differentiation of social space in informational city as the new pole of city development. Supported by information economics and information technology, innovation system, network system of city, global mutual conception and flux space conception effected and constructed the development of informational city space corporately.There appear global cities, city group of network position, metropolis group, herm city and renewal of urban center which are supported by information technology in the aspect of informational city space form. Diffusion and congregation coexist in the development of urban space, the limit of city and marginal zone blurred, and structure of city region had become the format of network.The landscape symbols in the industry age have been replaced by the electronic image of the information age, at the time of the inscapes of informational city landscape become diversified. New landscape form would come with the development of high-tech materials.The functional subarea of informational city becomes feeble, city production becomes separated, and then the limit of work and life blurs. All of these make the city functions compatible which involves habitation and work, manufacture and commerce, culture and traffic, etc. At the same... |