Study Of Downtown Design Guidelines For Pedestrian Zone

Along with the development and practical production of foreign urban design theories introducing to our country, our urban construction program begins to import and probe into urban design theories and incarnated in the practical-ties of urban constructions and rebuild. But the design guidelines, as the most valuable kernel of urban design theories, haven't been thought too much enough. The functions and valuations are lacking in thorough and systemic studies. For example, in the rebuilding course of traditional business center streets, the short of the design guidelines which accord with our country's situations and match to the business pedestrian street's development would result in ignoring and destroying the history value, district value and culture value. So it is very important to study the theories and practices of design guidelines and deepen the realization of urban design guidelines' important action. It not only can enrich and develop the urban design theories but also improve the practical meaning of the reasonable rebuilding of our country's urban and blocks.The thesis aims at the urban reformation of traditional commercial blocks and quest for the design guidelines assorting with it in order to control the out-of-order actions. Being on the basis of summarizing all the design guidelines and the practices the paper emphasizes on the deeply study in value elements and basic functions. It riches the contents of urban design guidelines in the abstract and provide scientific theories for instituting and applying the urban guidelines reasonably. The paper analyses, studies and summarizes previous rebuilding of Tianjin Street by image-background, investigation on the spot and computer three dimension simulation and deduces Tianjin pedestrian Street's design guidelines. Furthermore through the case of Tianjin Pedestrian Street the thesis finds out the effects of urban design guidelines. It helps the government avoid fatal errors and provide reference for urban designer who will be concerned with similar matters.