The Study On Pattern Of Small Block Residential Space

From the angle of urban planning, the doctoral dissertation focuses on the "smallblock, dense road-network" settlement pattern which illustrates the methodology ofthe urban settlements’ design and construction. Basing on the research developmentsof urban settlements and related theories in the western countries in this recent100years, the thesis summary the research achievements on both the theoretical and thepractical aspects in field of urban settlement planning. Hopefully, it can provide areference for the theoretical basis to China urban settlement design.The doctoral dissertation pays more attention on the analysis of the "Residentialdistrict" pattern in China cities and discusses how it affects on the urban spacestructure, traffic, city forms. Then through the quantitative approaches, the thesisprovides quantitatively the reference databases on the land mix-use, the neighborhoodpopulation size, density of road-network, scale of neighborhood, etc. Afterwards, thethesis establishes an settlement model which demonstrates the "small block, denseroad-network" settlement pattern.In order to make this pattern into use, the doctoral dissertation calls in question onthe Code for Settlement Planning and the Code for Urban traffic Planning. Then thethesis draws lessons from international common practices on the Control DetailedPlanning to offer the advices to China settlement planning. Furthermore, taking thePhonix Town in Tang Shan as example, the thesis conducts a practice research on thepattern of "small block, dense road-network".Finally, setting Tianjin as an example, the doctoral dissertation aims at the mainproblem of urban settlement planning and offers countermeasure proposal. The thesisreviews the evolution of the Tianjin settlement construction during last40years,analyzing and summarizing the major problems. Then the thesis evaluates the effectsof the settlement pattern of "small block, dense road-network" by several cases studyof Tianjin.