The Research Of Urban Space And Environment Of Linear Waterfront

Waterfront is one of the most important public spaces of city. The district of waterfront will go through the process of the birth, development, stabilization, transformation and optimization, and then it will get a view about what it would be in the future, which will determine the quality of whole urban space. Linear waterfront becomes critical for most cities because it can influence many districts of cities and has a most generally character of the waterfront.Suzhou River and Huangpu River are both very important for Shanghai. So the paper chooses them as the examples to discuss what the role is the linear waterfront would play in such a city. Firstly, the paper will research the progression of two rivers, so that we can find some critical elements which determine the differences between them. Secondly, the paper will analyze the different of the urban space and environments between them. Finally, the paper will show some optimize strategy.In the finality, the problems requiring further studies are discussed.2...