The Research On Urban Space From The Perspective Of Everyday Life

With the development of Modern science, the values-orient of Monism is emphasizedexcessively and the rationalism is stressed totally. And the scientific thought graduallybecomes the only legitimate interpretation of reality. Furthermore, in the process ofurbanization in 19th century, the city and architecture were regarded as standardizedgoods with precise geometric pattern, which had been constructed in a large number byreplication. This is a kind of ideology that not only stresses the importance of rationalorder and function, but also takes the efficient production as granted. At the matter of fact,this ideology is completely wrong beacuse it has neglected the essential experience ofhuman beings and denied the the diversity and unpredictability of everyday life. As aresult, this ideology has caused a lot of probloms such as the fracture of urban history, thedamage of community, the loss of urban vitality and so on. In a word, this ideology musthave some relationshiop with so-called "abstract space". To tell the truth, the abstrct spaceis boring which means a departure from the real origin of the design and construction. Theplanning and construction of Brasilia are the typical case of failure.However, the construction from rationlism is still popular nowadays. At a large extent,the mysterious force of the life world has disappeared, and as the same time the ultimatemeaning and value of human beings have been destroied thoroughly. Obviously, thetraditional methods of urban research excessively stress the time and the social structure toopen up the study and description, which have been proved impossible to truly grasp thenature of space. Thus traditional methods could not provide strong theoretical support andcomprehensive guidance for the planning and design. Only by the way of "Return back tothe living world", we could fundamentally solve the above problem, because everyday lifeis the ultimate meaning and human value.In view of this, the paper clarifies the theoretical context of "everyday life", and puts forward a research vision of "everyday life". Then the paper tries to construct a new studymethod starting from the perspective of "everyday life". The important thing is that, thenew method emphasises to break through the shackles of the traditional research waywhich is so called "from the space to the space". And the research is no longer a bird's-eyeview of the subjective but a review from everyday life, which has changed the backwardfocus of "grand narrative" and denied the role of spectator of the elite. On the contrary, thenew method argues the importance to go deep into the "everyday life", to concern thesignificance of residential behaviors as well as the use of space, and to pay more attentionto the logic of everyday life and the social trajectory.On this basis, the paper takes Hanzhengjie as the research object from the vision ofeveryday life, and selects seven typical cases to analyze by means of "process- incident".And only in this way, the paper could understand the story behind each spatial case. In thissense, these cases would have meaning and importance same with those fragmentingsentences and grammar from Benjamin. Each of these fragments looks like single list-style,but it is the crystallization of the complete incident as a whole. Because each of debrisinvloves the secrets of the world, and they would show the powerful capacity of "from aleaf to grasp all the experience of the plant world." Through the partial to understand thewhole, or through the details to understand the overall situation, is the method ofmicro-city research. And it is the basic skill of the paper.From the study above, the paper finds that Hanzhengjie attracts a wide range ofmarginalized groups to concentrating here. All the people here could flee away from thefalse demand creating by advertisements, and directly focus on Hanzheng Jie itself. As aresult, their own consumer, which be defined by their demand of everyday life, would bethe best way to clear up the zero space of contemporary cities. In addition, despite therestill exists the planning and construction under the modern discipline in Hanzhengjie, theresidents live laid-back. Everyday life of the residents here has formed a reacting force,including kinds of activities of anonymous creations and marginalized practices, which resists and dispells the rational construction of Hanzhengjie powerfully. Therefore,Hanzhengjie is a world of everyday life, and everyday life is the power of spatial practicewhich priming the diversity of space. And the space seems chaotic while it is a order ofhuman life.Then, the paper stresses the importance of the research perspective from everyday liferepeatedly, which provides us a new perspective to grasp and understand the innatecharacter of urban space. Finally, the paper discusses the problem on "Hanzhengjietransformation", and makes some suggestions on the urban renewal here.