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Study On Humanized Design Of Modern City Plaza

Posted on:2007-06-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z H ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2132360212480206Subject:Architecture and Civil Engineering
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The city plaza is an important part of urban public place and a city's symbol; it reflects historic culture and artistic style in a city. The place of relaxation and communication for people was provided by the plaza. At the same time, the city plaza plays an important role in increasing communication and enriching citizen life.The public space serves for people, and people play leading roles in it. Only the public space gives expression to humanized care, accords with citizen's behavior feature and reflects environmental consciousness, then it coincides with times. The purpose of this paper is how to apply the theory of humanized design in the plaza and reflects humanized care in the place of urban plaza.The research works of humanized design about city plaza concerning psychology, behaviorism, and social culture. Based on the knowledge of environmental behavior, the paper puts forward applied principles of environmental consciousness and place cognition in urban plaza design. Proceeding from the analyzed behavioral regularity and psychological feature, the people's activity types were divided into individual activity, group activity and community activity. The people's association types include lineal association and net association.The urban environment is a kind of social environment. According to the idea of material social environment, this paper puts forward conception of positive space and negative space, oriental cultural influence on city plaza, and the concept of Chinese traditional geomantic omen.After the theory research and the place characteristic of modern urban plaza were analyzed, the principles of humanized design in modern plaza were deduced such as entity principle, ecology principle, walking principle, diverse principle, place principle.In case studies, several urban plazas in Tai'an city were analyzed. At the same time, the improvement suggestions were posed. At last, sets a sample for urban plaza design, the theory of humanized design was applied in urban plaza.
Keywords/Search Tags:City plaza, Humanized design, Social culture
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