A Study On The Humanistic Design Of The City Pedestrian Space

The basis of the resuscitation of a city lies in the coruscation of the city's livingness, while the basis of the coruscation of the city's livingness is based on the assurance of the basic conditions of the people's life, which include the following two: the material supply and the spiritual respect. In this essay, the author starts from the large scale design of city and focuses on the pedestrian space for the majority citizens in the city who have a quite close relationship with the pedestrian space.In this essay, the author lays emphasis on the great significance of the pedestrian space in the city planning and designing. Through studying and exploring the adoption and the change of city life, the author try to reestablish the pedestrian space, and then we could reestablish the modality of city life and improve the living standard in city, thus enable the whole city to coruscate its energy once again.The author has studied the present situation of the city development and tried to find the points that citizens cared most and dissatisfied most through an overall questionnaire on Yantai city designing. Then the author finds out existing problems in practice and thereby selects the subject of the essay — how to create a satisfactory pedestrian space, that is, a humanistic pedestrian space. The starting point of this essay is to find out problems through investigation.Then the author makes profound study on how to carry on designing method for pedestrian space from the point of view of humanism. From the criterion which is closest to people the author makes analysis on the pedestrian system and from the five levels of requirement of Maslow the author gets three angles of view for the designing of the city pedestrian space: the requirement of the physical and safety characteristic of people; the requirement of the behavioral psychological characteristics of people; the requirement of the culture and the aesthetic characteristics of people. The studying approach of this essay is to study pedestrian space from the most essential and subtle criterion of human, that is , from the origin of the problem.Through the study of the problem the author concludes the basic organic principle of the city pedestrian space and emphasizes the necessity of bringing the city pedestrian space designing into the city planning policy and technical framework. The author looks forward to establishing a set of technical standards for the planning and designing of humanism pedestrian space and putting the standards into effect in the future. At the same time, on the basis of the findings this essay tries to solve the existing problems of Yantai city and provide the train of thought and method for the designing of Yantai city pedestrian space. Hence the developing orientation of the city can be regulated; the distribution of the city criterion can be improved from the aspect of walking; the charm of the city which was lost during the course of the city's construction and development can be pursued. Thus the city is built into a 'small' city with fine characteristics which is suitable for living and entertainment, is abundant in living spaces with convenient transportation where people can either travel or stay. The significance of this essay is to solve the existing problems through study.