Study On The Habitability Of Public Space In Urban Community

Cities originate from the clustering of people.Urbanization is one of important part of evolution of human society. One of the basic features of urbanization is that continuous generation of contradictions and conflict resolution, and continuous generation of new contradictions and new problems to solve. The contradiction between habitability and non-habitability is a pair which always accompanied by cities and urbanization, and, the problem of the habitability of the public space in urban community is the key issue of the habitability of urban.How to make life better for city? On the one hand, many cities hold high flag on habitability of urban's planning, construction and development. On the other hand, modern and surgery reconstruction of urban is very normal. Where to go? Our country has already been at the crossroads about sustainable development of urbanization. In China, the "twelfth-five-year plan" period may be historical opportunity for all-round transformation of urban development. This dissertation studied on habitability of public space in urban community, which composed of introduction text and conclusion, and the text focused on several aspects as follows.Chapterâ… :Analysis of the relevant concepts and basic theories on public space in urban community, which focused on that, the nature of city is habitability, and urbanization is the process which makes urban habitability continuously and innovatively, and the main trends in urban habitability.Chapterâ…¡:Evolution and sublimation of thought about public space of western urban community. The dissertation combed the schools of thought and the representatives about the public space in ancient and modern times in western urban community, discussed the thought of the public space of urban community's evolution from rising, thriving to decaying since 1930s, and focused on the value of sublimation of the thought of the public space in urban communities when post-modernism has replaced modernism.Chapterâ…¢:Background of study about public space in urban community in China. The dissertation introduced the vacancy of public space thought in ancient, and the prosperity of western modernist since 1980s in China. And it focused on the status and main results of study on the post-modernism urban public space since 2000.Chapterâ…£:Habitability of street public space in urban community. The dissertation outlined the history of the streets, revealed the rule of the street from amalgamation to separation on the 'street' and 'road', introduced the core theory, diversity theory and behavior theory on the habitability of the street, focused on the strategies of building habitable narrow streets and small blocks system.Chapterâ…¤:Habitability of green public space in urban community. The dissertation outlined the related concepts and categories of urban green space, introduced the basic ecology theory of urban green space, focused on the guidance of the ecosystem services of green space for the habitability of urban green space planning, and the habitability strategy of the green space in urban community.Chapterâ…¥:Habitability of square public space in urban community. The dissertation described the meanings and classifications of square, combed its history of formation and evolution, and analyzed the basic status of our city square, and focused on the habitable strategies of square public space's planning and development in urban community.Chapterâ…¦:Analysis on habitability and non-habitability according to planningt of Victory Street community of Jingzhou in Hubei Province. The dissertation brought forward the strategies for the habitability of t Victory Street community such as the street planning, the green space and plaza planning, the infrastructure of the public service, and the public participation.The main innovations of this dissertation are as follows:(1) The variety, the complexity, the humanization, the social justice, and the traditional habitability are main contents from the post-modernism, and these are keies of habitability of the public space of urban community; (2) The construction of narrow streets and small blocks system by community unit is the basis for urban habitability; (3) The planning and construction of inhabitable green space and square in urban community is necessary measure to raise the level of urban habitability.The main disadvantages of this dissertation are that the research for nonmaterial public space in urban community is short, and the quantitative analysis for public space in urban community is not enough.