The Research For Transformation And Character Of Chengdu Commercial Space

City is all about gathering of different people, different culture and different lifestyle. In some cities, especially some western country's cities, people of different races hugely different from others in culture. Otherwise in commercial spaces, all kinds of people gather up all together. So, commercial space always be looked as one of crucial part of cities. From long time ago, till today'21st, commercial activity is as old as the other activity of human beings.City is the place of politics and market which settled in. Down the ages, market is always looked as one of important part of cities. Nowadays, the definition of market already has the same meanings of commercial space. Without the economical development, the development of a society will never happen; In all these human being activities, commercial activities have huge impact on society and culture's development. In a word, research about commercial space is extremely important.ChengDu is one of our country's famous historical city. It has a long long history, and at the same time, ChengDu's commercial activity is also booming through the long and struggling history. This thesis stands on today's ChengDu commercial space system, analysis different commercial space's characters and their process of transformation. In historical perspective, compare the spaces' variety in their changing modes; in modern perspective-the Theory of Sign in Architecture, analysis the spaces' latent characters; based on the practice of today's ChengDu commercial space, try to figure out meaningful characteristic commercial spaces in ChengDu, which is "bearing a clearer cultural identity, colorful area characters". It's not just for business, not just for making money. Let's do something for our beautiful city, for our adoring people who settle and live in here, for the past, and for the future......