The Research On Humanized Design Of Street Sidewalk

Facing the cold and detached street environment, Louis Kahn point out: The city begins with opening space and street as associating place, and the communication is the origin of the city. But these streets have been turned into a channel of sport without temperament and interest now, no longer subordinated to the street coexisting with them. So" you have only ways, but there is not a street ". The modern city usually just develops automobile traffic system and neglects the important function of the walk in the city producing and living. On the other hand, such public space of model as the city square, pedestrian street, etc. are concerned by urban construction extremely, while paying little attention to the sidewalk which is linked close to the daily life of citizensArousing the care to the whole range of the human nature is an remarkable characteristic of civilization development in the later stage of the 20th century. Humanization reflects some kind of important human nature awareness of postindustrial era, and indicates that the development of the modern science and philosophy have shown a remarkable transition from material world exploration to people themselves. By studying the sidewalk that have extensive meaning to city public life, this thesis proceed from humanism to look for methods promoting the city walk life in an all-round way. The thesis explain the basic meaning of humanization at first, then analyse various kinds of human nature characteristics of the activity in the street sidewalk, in order to sum up some main point and basic principles for leading the design of humanized sidewalk. Linking with the unitary characteristics of the sidewalk system from the macroscopical level to the microcosmic level, the thesis look for integrative methods in the field of City Planning and Urban Design, to Improve the walking security and abilities, to coordinate the relations between frontage buildings and sidewalk, and to show meticulous humanized care for concrete environmental facilities of sidewalk in the street.By studying the humanized sidewalk design on multi-level, this thesis about sidewalk is seeking effective method for humanized design from whole organic angle. The design of the sidewalk is close linked with the whole construction of cities. It is a series of space environment design of cities, but not only the sidewalk landscape design. Only in this way could it improve the humanized quality of the urban life in essence.