City and personality have never been easily associated. Historically, since classical antiquity, urban space has always been the reflection of a collective identity representing the natural inclination of human beings...City and personality have never been easily associated. Historically, since classical antiquity, urban space has always been the reflection of a collective identity representing the natural inclination of human beings to live in group. However, according to Lewis Mumford, the city has been the context in which another ideal arose--the concept of personality. This ideal, according to the official history of urban design, seems to have had a very marginal role, if not as a formal or functional analogous structure. Nevertheless, looking at the physical consistence of built space--as well as its ideal formulation--it is not difficult to find some evidence of Mumford＇s theory. Therefore, the paper, through an architectural overview ranging from classical street-side benches to contemporary digital cities, aims at outlining the progressive change in the representation of urban identities from a collective to a more personal dimension. It describes how public space design, especially during the last 30 years, has redefined its strategies in order to increase the possibilities of personal intervention for users, and it focuses on the gradual shift of this discipline towards other scales, instruments and objectives, in a sudden disciplinary convergence with interior architecture and industrial design. Thus, showing how a pervasive process of domestication is nowadays transforming not only the use, but also the symbolic meaning that the public domain has traditionally had.展开更多
Against the background of urban regeneration,“reducing quantity and improving quality” has been the core demand for planning and development in Beijing’s central urban areas,which applies to the development of urba...Against the background of urban regeneration,“reducing quantity and improving quality” has been the core demand for planning and development in Beijing’s central urban areas,which applies to the development of urban vitality spaces of the city as well.In the meantime,in the digital age,users’ sentiment needs for urban spaces continuously increase,making it necessary to consider the sentiment connection between people and the built environment when creating vitality spaces.This study uses two typical examples of urban regeneration vitality spaces in Beijing,“Xidan The New” and “Beijing Fun,” and uses the sentiment connection theory that is based on multiple disciplines as a lever to introduce the thinking,technology,and methods of data science,focusing on the lack of attention to small-scale built environment features in vitality space research.The study integrates the from-top-to-bottom sentiment connection scale data,the qualitative research data,and the from-bottom-to-top big data sentiment analysis to explore the characteristics of small-scale vitality space that can stimulate positive sentiment experiences for users and to bring the discussion of spatial vitality back to the human scale and real three-dimensional spatial experience.In the end,this study summarizes the elements of small-scale spatial vitality and constructs evaluation indicators for sentiment connection to vitality spaces.The goal is to expand and refine the research scope of urban vitality spaces,update corresponding design and evaluation methods,and ensure that the spatial expression of “vitality” truly reflects liveliness and responds to human nature.展开更多
文摘City and personality have never been easily associated. Historically, since classical antiquity, urban space has always been the reflection of a collective identity representing the natural inclination of human beings to live in group. However, according to Lewis Mumford, the city has been the context in which another ideal arose--the concept of personality. This ideal, according to the official history of urban design, seems to have had a very marginal role, if not as a formal or functional analogous structure. Nevertheless, looking at the physical consistence of built space--as well as its ideal formulation--it is not difficult to find some evidence of Mumford＇s theory. Therefore, the paper, through an architectural overview ranging from classical street-side benches to contemporary digital cities, aims at outlining the progressive change in the representation of urban identities from a collective to a more personal dimension. It describes how public space design, especially during the last 30 years, has redefined its strategies in order to increase the possibilities of personal intervention for users, and it focuses on the gradual shift of this discipline towards other scales, instruments and objectives, in a sudden disciplinary convergence with interior architecture and industrial design. Thus, showing how a pervasive process of domestication is nowadays transforming not only the use, but also the symbolic meaning that the public domain has traditionally had.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Project (No.52208005)the first batch of Industry-Education Collaboration Project by the Ministry of Education in 2024 (No. 230805329162932, project of King Far-CES “Human Factors and Ergonomics”)Beijing Social Science Foundation Youth Project (No. 22GLC063)。
文摘Against the background of urban regeneration,“reducing quantity and improving quality” has been the core demand for planning and development in Beijing’s central urban areas,which applies to the development of urban vitality spaces of the city as well.In the meantime,in the digital age,users’ sentiment needs for urban spaces continuously increase,making it necessary to consider the sentiment connection between people and the built environment when creating vitality spaces.This study uses two typical examples of urban regeneration vitality spaces in Beijing,“Xidan The New” and “Beijing Fun,” and uses the sentiment connection theory that is based on multiple disciplines as a lever to introduce the thinking,technology,and methods of data science,focusing on the lack of attention to small-scale built environment features in vitality space research.The study integrates the from-top-to-bottom sentiment connection scale data,the qualitative research data,and the from-bottom-to-top big data sentiment analysis to explore the characteristics of small-scale vitality space that can stimulate positive sentiment experiences for users and to bring the discussion of spatial vitality back to the human scale and real three-dimensional spatial experience.In the end,this study summarizes the elements of small-scale spatial vitality and constructs evaluation indicators for sentiment connection to vitality spaces.The goal is to expand and refine the research scope of urban vitality spaces,update corresponding design and evaluation methods,and ensure that the spatial expression of “vitality” truly reflects liveliness and responds to human nature.
