The Commercial Space Integrate Into The Residential Environment

The most important issue on the historic district which represents the city localcharacteristics is facing not only the protection but also the development. Practiceproved that rational development of commercial space in a historic district can reallydrive historic district economy development and enhance its vitality. Commercialspace in the historic district is a medium which People and the historic district form acommunication and interaction. The historic district is not only the civil society lifespace carrier, but also the main place of the public feel the cityscape. But the reality ofexcessive commercialization in the transformation tendency of many cases has arousedthe general offensive by the scholars and people. Design community is currently facingimportant issues on how to find a better way to combine the historic districts andcommercial space, so as to make the historic district can take a sustainable developmentpath.This paper selected the transformation of the Pingjiang historic district asa relatively successful case to study. The commercial space and the historic district arein harmony here. It makes the entire district full of vitality and reflected a "homeland"artistic conception of the space.