The Evolution Of Urban Street Space Exploration In The Perspective Of The Consumer Culture

Street is a microcosm of the city. People’s memories of a city are alwaysinseparable from the street. Street is not only available for the passage of athree-dimensional physical space, but also contains rich, local, traditional culturalinformation. However, nowadays in our city’s construction, the function of the streetis ignored, and the car has become the master of the way. This paper researches theurban street space based on the consumer culture vision. Consumption stimulates thestreet generation, and affects the evolution of street space form. Consumption hasbecome a force to be reckoned affecting modern urban spatial structure, especially thecommercial consumer space.In ancient China, the true sense of the street was created in the Song Dynasty. Theprosperity of commodity economy had stimulated the development of massconsumption.Under the impetus of the mass consumer, street generated in the city.The street becomed the Gathering place of the commodity, and gradually developedinto the urban public space, carryed more social function. In our feudal society,resulted in three typical traditional street space form:Beijing Hutong，Shanghaineighborhood and Jiangnan streets.In Europe and America, consumer culture triggered a retail revolution, and affectedthe urban morphology. The form of the consumption space in the United States hasexperienced the department stores, shopping malls, lifestyle shopping centers.Consumption space moved from the traditional city center to the suburbs spread,highly coupled with the residential areas.In China, with the rapid economic development after reform and opening up, theimprovement of living standards stimulated mass consumption. Under the influenceof retail revolution in the west,“new forms of consumption space” in the cityrepresented by hypermarkets, community supermarkets and convenience stores， which changed the city’s commercial space structure from the pyramids to flatterdevelopment, and formed the "triple consumption circle". With the changingconsumer culture, consumer space began to miniaturization, and showed thedevelopment trend of the neighborhood.In this paper, as the carrier of the consumption space’s neighborhood developmenttrend, the streets and the urban resident living space are closely linked. And from thestreets and consumption relations, this paper elaborates how to shape the street spacethrough five aspects as the main body of the street space, street distribution, functionof the street and the street space form.At last, we select three living areas In Tianjin,and analysis how the urban street space affects residents activities, looking for all thefactors shaping the vibrant streets to support the view of this paper.