The New Urbanism And Its Influence On The Contemporary Chinese Residential Community Design

"The new urbanism"is a new trend of thought that arose in the field of city design in the North American in 1980s of the 20th century, born in the historical background of the development of the major cities in the United States, experienced a urbanization, suburbanization, gentleman of the development process, as a response to the spread and development of the rural areas criticized, Concerned by more and more experts and city governments, developers, and the public.The main objective is to sum up the impact the new urbanism on the chinese community design, the main thinking is to demonstration the conditions need for the establishment, the main methods is comparison.This thesis systematically card the development process and historical background, the main representative people and theories, the main theory sources, the association with and the distinction form the concept of"the new traditionalism""the new urbanism", both positive and negative comments of the new urbanism.By systematically summarizing the community design ideas of the"new urbanism"and in-depth analyzing its classic cases, based on the comparing the community design idea of the new urbanism with the idea of Chinese residential areas design and the Vanke's new urbanism community practice as a basis for the case studies, and then form which, the influence of the new urbanism on the chinese residential community design, the problems exist in the chinese new urbanism practice can be inferred.The main results of the thesis are the summarized impacts the new urbanism made to Chinese residential community design, performaning in the following ten aspects: First, Chinese residential community design begin to lay emphasis on the regional vision for the development and construction of community; second, on the open design of community public space; third, on the diversity design of the community; fourth, on the geographical characteristics of the community, on the historical traditions the local cultural and the base contextbe inherited and carried forward; fifth, the roads net structure began to return to the traditional neighborhood space, transport system develop towards diversification, road scale become more humanize;sixth, Chinese residential community design begin to lay emphasis on the design of walking environment; seventh,on the design of communities' centers and edges; eighth, the block layout mode of Chinese residential community develops towards yard; ninth, the housetypes develops towards miniaturization and diversification; tenth, the chinese residential community design begin to lay emphasis on the molding of the neighborhood feeling.Another result of the thesis is the ten summarized problems in the practice of the new urbanism in Chinese: first, Chinese overall planning in advance is not sufficient, and the matching of the public facilities is not mature enough; second, the size of Chinese residential community is too large; third, the goal of mixed living that the new urbanism advocates is difficult to be realized; fouth, the develop density that the new urbanism advocates is not suitable for chinese national conditions; fifth, the open design principle of community public space advocated the by the new urbanism is difficult to be realized at this stage of China; Sixth, the road system design of Chinese residential community is not entirely reasonable, ignoring the importance of walking community; seventh, the chinese residential community design lack the heritage of historical context, ignoring the emotional needs of community residents; Eighth, the attention the chinese residential community design payed to the emphasis on the regional the the new urbanism lay is not enough; ninth, the level of public participation is still not high; tenth, in the process of the chinese residential community design, the out of context and the speculation of the new urbanism is very serious.