The Research On The Influence Of The Changes Of Modern Communicational Pattern Upon The Urban Residence

Residence, being the cornerstone of society, lays the foundation of the survival and development of human beings. As the vehicle of family life, residence not only reflects social change and development politically, economically and culturally, but also mirrors the life style and state of each family and individual. Residence belongs to a kind of architecture which has the largest number of buildings, the most abundant changes and the greatest amount of study, due to its close relationship with individual life. With the concepts"people oriented","harmonious society"and"harmonious family"filtering into people's mind, residents have an increasingly high standard for their living environment. They ask for a cozy materialistic surrounding as well as spiritual consolation. What kind of residence is most suitable for human dwelling is a question for both architects and residentsThe elements effecting the development of residence are numerous and complex, and are constantly changing in different historical periods. Nevertheless, regular rules can be found among the changing elements—residence should meet the demand of dwelling life and correspond with people's life style and communicational pattern. Only by gaining an insight into the mutual relationship between dwelling life and external materialistic vehicle, can we deeply understand residence and design the most suitable and comfortable one. From the perspective of philosophy, communication, being or forming an important part of life, is itself a kind of life style and living mode. Accordingly, residence should satisfy the need of communication and vary with the variation of social communication. Thus, we explore the development and evolution of urban residence from the angle of the change of social communicational mode.For more than one century, social communicational mode develops from inferiority to superiority, backwardness towards openness and simplicity to complexity. Great changes have taken place in the field of residential life and pattern as a result of the change of communicational life and mode. In china, modern dwelling mode shifts from traditional residential quadrangle to lane house,terrace house,apartment house etc. During the period of planned economy, unit residence,high residence,and residential community appeared. The changing process embodies the development of residents'life, and reflects the change of living and communicational mode as well. This thesis will investigate into the mutual relationship between communicational pattern and urban residence during the three important social evolutionary periods.The thesis can be divided into three parts. The first part, also the first chapter is the introduction. It will briefly introduce the background and significance of the topic, the associated concepts, the research scope, and the analysis of relative theory and the framework of the thesis. Chapter two to chapter four forms the second part. In this part, the thesis will study the change of social communicational mode, the change of urban residence and their mutual relationship. Neighborhood communication and its space are also targets of the study. The time of the research will be limited to three important social reforming periods: the transitory period in modern society, the period of planned economy, and the period of market economy. The third part includes chapter five and conclusion. Chapter five, based on the analysis on the above—mentioned three periods, concludes the influence of social communicational change on urban residence whose development will in turn mirror and restrict the development of social communicational change. In this chapter, the problem of communicational space among neighbors will be solved in terms of architecture. It will also look forward to the neighborhood communication and the residential development in the future. The conclusion will firstly summarize the main content of the thesis. Then, based on the current development of residence, it will point out the achievement and significance of the study in the thesis and what should be digged into hereafter.