Research On Using Of Water Space In Urban Design

Water space is a vital factor to human being. Its open space softens the man-made surroundings in cities. Its clear direction-sense makes places recognized easily and helps to form the unique feature of cities. It encourages various movements and meets the life and communicational need as well.Constructing "harmonious society" is the important trend of our society. Following this ideology, constructing healthy and harmonious urban special surroundings becomes the goal of urban design. Being an important factor of urban space, water space has been widely used in urban design. For this purpose, this thesis discusses the principle and methods of using water space in urban design.This thesis has five parts. The first part is Introduction. It will introduce the origin, purpose, significance, research objects and contents of this thesis. The second part is Analysis of water space factors. It analyses the factors, characteristic and conformation of water space. The third part is History and actualities of using of water space in urban design. The development and problems of water space will be discussed in this part. The fourth part is How to using water space in urban design with the purpose of "harmoniousness", and will be the most important part in this thesis. The last part is Practice. It will give an item to show how to apply the conclusions to real item of urban design.The user of cities is no other than human. So urban design should be humanity first and consider the need and feeling of people. Since liking water is a nature of people, using of water space should play an important role and make harmonious city surroundings for people to use and enjoy. That is the way for urban design to contribute to "harmonious society".This research has practical and instructional significance. And we hope it helpful to urban design and construction in the future.