Of Urban Street Space Landscape

The street is one of the most important outdoor public space of the city. It is not only the corridor which connect two places, but also is the stage for thepublic life of the citizens where the tourists walk along and observe get to know about the city, and the local residents feel and sense the surrc and carry through their daily life activities just like the are used to. So, from a certain degree, the most direct and the most frequent sense of people urban landscape is comes from the streets. The quality of the street embodies the level of urban design and influences the feeling of the people. The urban street' s space-scape includes the elements of humanities and substances. The latter one is made up of all the material units of the street environment, while the former one is a series of soft factors, which makes the space lively and embodies the urban spirits. Both of them build up the rich and colorful scenes of the urban street. The thesis sued the activities of the human being as the main clue to make the:series elements be a strand. The analyses of the human activities and how to make characteristic are the emphases of this thesis. The former analyzed the relationships between the human activities and the space-make elements ?^r the guidelines of humanism. And the concept of fringe is been put forward. Then ' author analyzed the circumstances of the use of fringe, and explained the work of u - fringe design. The latter, angled from the culture and the chromatics, studied the . ;iments one by one, aimed at the emphasis of the application of cultural and charac --tic techniques in the work of street space environment design. That is to make a er street space full of human kindness and characteristics.