The Revitalization Of The Public Space In Urban Riverfront

Because of the various developmental possibilities providing by the superior ecological environment in the area between the dry land and water area, most of the human civilization appears in the waterfront. It is not only the earliest human settlement before the appearance of the city, but also the power of the city development, the vitallest economic area, the most potential area in nature, and emboding the amount of the history and public life of the city. But, on account of the reverse influence on environment followed by the modern industrial civilization, urban riverfront either loses the affinity to the people or loses the publicism for the occupation of the city industry or buildings. Consequently, the urban riverfront becomes the wasteland and the place far away from the city life.Because the river in the city has great significance for the spatial morphology of the city, the spatial pattern , landscape image, natural ecology and city life, it becomes the major parts of urban management and urban renewal. Be based on the city level and urban public space level, using the method from grandiosity level to microcosmic level, from whole to part and from large to small, the paper selects the public space of urban riverfront as the object to research. Analyzes the relations between the city and the urban riverfront; analyzes the morphology of the public space in urban riverfront; elaborates the renewal elements, of riverfront space. At last, put forwards the principles and methods of urban riverfront renewal from the points of natural ecology, city context, city vitality, city function and history preservation accordingly. I hope that the principles and methods of urban riverfront renewal will give a guideline to urban riverfront renewal nowadays. After all, the revitalization of public space in the urban riverfront not only meets the demands of city function, perfects the city ecological structure and continues the context of the city but also creats a nice city with vigours.