Research on Self-organized Commercial Streets in Urban Gap Space:A Case Study of Zhubao Street in Nanchang City

Due to the shortage of land resources caused by large-scale urban development and construction,old urban areas tend to become the generation places of urban gap space under the background of development and construction without focusing on the utilization of urban stock space.Under the impact of long-term development and new forces,especially the impact of commerce,cities will form self-organized commercial streets for sustainable development,showing the characteristics of disorder and vitality.Based on the urban gap and self-organized commercial street theory,the paper studies the gap space of Zhubao Street in Nanchang,and analyzes the theoretical factors of self-organized commercial street to discuss the characteristics and infl uence of gap space composition,hoping to fi nd out the effective strategy for renovation and renewal.

Aesthetics of urban commercial streets from the perspective of cognitive memory and user behavior in urban environments

Streets are one of the major elements that make-up the urban environment. Urban commercial and mixed-use street types occur as public spaces in every town and city all around the world. With the paucity of such spaces, streets have taken up to solve the problem. Hence, this study assesses the key physical, visual, and aesthetical characteristics and examines the influence of aesthetical attributes over the activity pattern, user behavioral responses, and the color palette observed. Moreover, this research has been carried out in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. Four significant commercial streets were identified and featured in the main study. The research method comprehends a structured questionnaire and multiple interviews to amass data, photo elicitation, and video corroboration to identify the key visual characteristics to study and scrutinize the aesthetical responses to various attributes that make good-looking urban commercial and mixed-use street types. The results of the study indicate that the diversity and perceived pleasantness of the environment, which includes elements such as facades, colors, aspect ratios, maintenance, and vegetation, has a very close association with walking preferences. The outcome of the study would also help architects, urban designers and planners, and policy makers to create positive spaces to foster urban commercial street types as place-making and aesthetically pleasing streets.

Evaluation of Regional Characteristic Landscape along the Commercial Pedestrian Street Based on AHP:A Case Study of Dongpo Bund in Huangzhou

Based on investigation and literature collation,the evaluation factors of regional characteristic landscape along the commercial pedestrian street were extracted,and the evaluation system of regional characteristic landscape along the commercial pedestrian street was established by the AHP method.The regional characteristic landscape along the commercial pedestrian street is the first-level index,including four secondary indexes of regional characteristics of road landscape,regional characteristics of plant landscape,regional characteristics of architecture and sketch,and spatial landscape experience,as well as 17 three-level indicators such as road environment landscape coordination,uniqueness of road markers and road landscape recognizability.The reliability of the evaluation system of the regional characteristic landscape along the commercial pedestrian street in Dongpo Bund was proved.The importance sequence of road landscape level,spatial landscape experience,landscape visual effect and plant landscape characteristics in the regional characteristic landscape was obtained,and it is closely related to users’ satisfaction.According to the problems found in the survey,suggestions on the transformation of the regional characteristic landscape along the commercial pedestrian street in Dongpo Bund were put forward to provide reference for the transformation and improvement of regional characteristic landscape along similar urban commercial pedestrian streets.

Dashilan’er Street:Old Beijing’s Commercial Center

DASHILAN’ER Street is located south of Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing. Lined with old shop fronts,it brings visitors back to a time when this area served as the main commercial hub over 600 years ago. If the Forbidden City symbolizes the country’s royal culture since the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644),then Dashilan’er Street,the city’s first and oldest commer-

Impact of Outdoor Store Signboards on Street Vitality:A Case Study of Ximazhuang Street in Nanchang City

Street is an important place of urban social and economic life and the highest point of urban vitality.Under the current environment infl uenced by many factors,the vitality of urban streets is not high,among which dilapidated street landscape is one of the important factors.Therefore,based on the infl uence of urban street landscape on the vitality of urban streets,store signboard of street landscape is selected as the starting point to analyze the chaos of outdoor store signboards in Ximazhuang Street of Nanchang City,and reasonable design and control strategies for outdoor store signboards in commercial streets are put forward by drawing on advanced experience of other countries or regions.

Evaluation of climate comfort based on the relationship between the structure and behavior of a block space in a winter city

This paper focuses on climate comfort degree evaluated from relationships between spatial characteristics and behaviors of a winter city.It is demonstrated that the influences of climatic factors on human comfort are remarkably different for different spatial characteristics and functions of the sites.An evaluation method of climatic comfort is propsed,in which attaining comfort is an adaptation process,and the dynamic changes in the process are according to the user’s subjective tendency to the variations of the spatial characteristics and functions of the space.The evaluation criteria are based on both physical and psychological hierarchy needs of a person,which include the spatial form for microclimatic conditions as well as the spatial social-economic characteristics of a site.To improve the local environment of a winter city by planning measurements,the Harbin Central Pedestrian Street is taken as an example in the application of the evaluation method,and different planning optimizing strategies are proposed accordingly.The results show that the pattern of climate comfort is characterized by reflecting the socialeconomic value and individual behavior characteristics.

Urban Public Spaces and Design of Historical and Cultural Buildings——Series II of Urban Public Space Design

This paper summarized concept and role of urban public space, highlighted its role in emotional exchange, cultural exchange, and business communication, and the significance of showing inside image of the city in terms of morality and residents' quality. Combining with design of historical and cultural buildings, the paper explored the forms of historical and cultural buildings in urban public spaces from the perspectives of administration square, religious square, cultural square and commercial street, so as to design "human-concerned" urban public spaces that meet human needs and reflect personality of the city.