The Study Of City Community Boundary Problem

The development of Chinese cities is facing large number of problems and challenges in this era, among which the problem of city community boundary is one of the basic problems. Since boundary is the important characteristic of present Chinese community, and present Chinese cities and communities are facing many problems during construction and development reflect in the form of community boundary to some extent——the form of concrete and abstract commonly exist, the paper puts the problem of city community boundary as research object,Beijing as a case,in order to change the manner of isolated community research or isolated public space research, which ignore the relation between community and city, tries to explore inherent characteristic and rules of Chinese city development, to find the causation of problem, and to put forward the strategies which can solve the problems.The main characteristics of Boundary are separating and isolating spaces, at the same time, connecting and communicate spaces. The antinomy attribute of boundary form the prototype value of boundary, which influence space conception of mankind and development of society and culture. The paper sets up theory foundation through reviewing form,attribute,and effect of boundary,through which the paper analyzes types, characteristics, and problems of Beijing city. The mainly problems of boundary are obdurate of planning construction, huge scale and bad accessibility, the waste of spaces and services resources, social isolation, destroy of urban space, texture, and public life. After the apparent problems, the deeper problems are from culture, society, policy and economy of city.On the basic of the upper researches, the paper put forwards the strategies which may resolve boundary problems: first, to set up the basic principles of city community planning and urban construction. Second, to put forward importance of boundary control and specific measures from the level of policies and regulations. Third, to exploit potentialities of land value and commercial value, and to propose changing the construction mode that governments and developers play the dominant role. Fifth, to build boundary spaces of city from the aspects of boundary layer, boundary line, boundary region, and boundary interface through boundary design. The paper finally calls for a new mode of city community and city public space development, and bring up the ideal of a Boundaryless city : a fair and open, mixed harmoniously, citizens autonomic, and dynamic urban society.