Research Of Urban Waterfront Environment

Urban design is a new subject in China . the urban theories is not systematic and is always diverced from practice.Water has a direct bearing on the formation, development and distribution of cities. As more and more attention are paid to water environment urban waterfront environment design becomes the hot question of urban design.The waterfront development carries on traditionary culture and makes the city space more perfect and satisfies the demands of mordernize ecolomy.This thesis attemps to discuss the three major urban waterfront environment design topic of ecological environment urban function and townscape. This thesis have given their answers to the question of water pollution, waterfront greenbelt, waterfront local climatic urban land function urban traffic, urban disaster, waterfront space structure and waterfront townscape.The urban waterfront has great significance for the growing of the city and its spaticl morphology is evoluting in the city regeneration process. This thesis analyses the element of this evclution and give an outline of designing and operation.According to the historical and present situation of Wuhan , the thesis has analysed and evaluated the waterfront of Wuhan. The result suggest the guide line of the environmental renew design. Mainly the thesis has elaborated and presented a planning idea on ecological environment, urban function and townscape.