The Study Of Space Form Of City Entrance

The challenging problem that faces us is how to create a city. For a long time urban design and urban planning have been stressing the zonation, traffic and image of a city but neglected the basic problem: how do people enter a city no matter when they are using or only wish to know the city? City entrance is the space between a city and its sub urban area, which is exits as a space boundary, and it is the space for transferring and exchange of public, material and information. On the other hand, it fulfills people's psychological and physical requirement Space form of city entrance not only can satisfy human's physical needs and spirit needs, but also improve the integral environment quality. As a barrier of culture and history, it can enhance the attraction of cities, and bring out prosperity and energy. The city entrance space is a kind of public space of the city and its real spatial form is made up of the buildings, constructions, roads, greenbelts, sketches and the virtual city space between them that may signify the city entrance, which are related to each other and at the same time restricted to each other. A typical real city entrance space includes: ancient city gate, modern bus station, train station, airport and ports and the square in front of the stations. While its virtual space form exists in the medium of various information, including texts, television, network, virtual reality and other new media. Especially, in the 21st century, information epoch, traditional space form of city entrance cannot resolve the contemporary problem of information current. As the appearance of virtual space, virtual cities have been set up in medium network. So, the entrance to cities is expected to be able to afford more than traffic flow. City entrance in the future should incarnate intervention of medium, which is the essential quality of city entrance space form in information epoch.