Research On Sustainability Of Living Space Environment For Rural Communities In Changyuan County, Henan Province

With the social economy development and the process of urbanization in ruralareas, the peasants’living conditions have undergone a great deal of change over thepast decades since the reform and opening up. Additionally, the Farmers were forced togo upstairs to live phenomenon have been around concerned in2011, the changes onthe living environment in rural areas have produced great effects on the harmoniousdevelopment of rural social economy, and it related to the designers’planning conceptand design method. Therefore, it seems to be particularly important to examine thefeasibility and sustainability of rural living space environment from the angle of planand design, the research subject of this paper is how to keep and pass the rural costumesand regional culture during new rural community constructions.Firstly, this paper respectively expounds in theory the profound meanings andelements of rural community living space environment and sustainability in order todetermine the scope of this research. Secondly, according to the analyses ofsustainability which have been done with elements in this paper, the theorybases forfollow-up study are established.Secondly, the traditional villages and new rural communities in Changyuan havebeen taken as examples. Based on the survey study of the present status of villages andcommunities, combined with the theory framework of sustainability of rural livingspace environment, this paper analyzes life-styles and living space environment in detail.Then, on the basis of comparison and analysis between traditional villages and newrural community living space environment, the positive and negative changes on the rural community life-styles and living space environment in Changyuan aresummarized.Finally, according to the given regional conditions of Changyuan County, theauthor discusses the development countermeasures of sustainability of the ruralcommunity living space environment in order to provide some reference for sustainabledevelopment of rural area in Changyuan County and the whole country.