Hun River Waterfront Space Vitality Promotion Planning Research In Shenyang

The city is the main dwelling place for human beings. Often regarded as the birthplace of a city, the waterfront has been raising people for thousands of years. With the continuous social and economic development, the functions of the urban waterfront are being re-transforming as well, which offers great new opportunities for the studies of urban waterfront. The city’s waterfront space not only carries the most of the urban history and cultural heritage, but also shows the the urban landscape. Thus we are paying more and more attention. But more and more areas are in pursuit of speed, meanwhile overlook the lively characteristics of the waterfront region, blindly imitating the mode of development and construction from home and abroad, which has caused the vitality of urban waterfront to disappear gradually. With the continuous expansion of Shenyang City, the original boundary river-Hun River has become a internal city river. In the overall urban planning, its geographical location and its surrounding bearing functions determine the Hun River waterfront space to be an excellent place that will surely reflect the city’s geographical features. At present, Shenyang Hun River Waterfront Development Planning and Design has been basically completed. Its development and construction is gradually improving Shenyang’s urban environment as well as providing a more diverse urban waterfront space for Shenyang people. I used to have the privilege to participate in the Hun River waterfront landscape planning and design, in which I would like to take the great opportunity to learn and study the construction process to enhance the vitality of Shenyang urban waterfront, and to apply some strategies to the practice of the Hun River waterfront planning project.This thesis is divided into four parts:The first part (including Chapter1) Introduction. As the basis of the article, this part gives the basic descriptions of the background, meaning and purpose of the topic, and defines in details the specific keywords in the title. After reading a lot of academic articles, I sum up the current situation and insufficiency related to the thesis research, and on this basis, determine the entry point of the thesis writing, thesis object, method and framework, to pave the way for the following.The second part (including Chapter2) Current Situation. This part makes a comprehensive analysis of the connotation, the role, the characteristics and the types of public waterfront space, and summarizes the special nature of the urban waterfront public space. Based on the summary of Shenyang Hun River Waterfront Planning and Design history, this part analyzes the current composition of the public space on the basis of the related elements of urban vitality, and sums up the underlying reasons why the vitality of the Hun River waterfront space is missing. That is, the small number of waterfront public areas, its uneven distribution, its alienation from the urban space system, poor accessibility, the lack of hierarchy and relation within the system, poor space environment quality, and other reasons.The third part (including Chapters3and4) The planning concepts and strategies of enhancing the vitality. Chapter3states in details the planning and design objectives to enhance the urban waterfront vitality, and proposes the planning principles and the integrated approaches to enhance the vitality of the waterfront space. Chapter4puts forward the specific strategies to enhance the vitality in accordance with the related urban design theories, from external relation to the system construction, and to the individual space design.Part Ⅳ (including Chapters5and6) Case analysis and summary. On the basis of the theoretical research and practical exploration, and with the help of the case studies of "the Shenyang Hun River Banks Waterfront Development Planning and Design", which I once participated in, Chapter5analyzes and explains the strategies to enhance the vitality of the waterfront space, as a supplement to the thesis research; Chapter6summarizes the research results of the thesis, the limitations and shortcomings, providing a reference for the subsequent researches.