Planning And Design Research Of The Commercial Pedestrian Mall In The Downtown Of Xian Based On The Cultural Characteristics

Commercial pedestrian mall is the most important component of the city's public place. It is not only carrying the thriving commercial function of the city but also embodies the city's material and spiritual civilization. The building of Commercial pedestrian mall has a important consequence in our country's city construction. The Commercial pedestrian mall which instantiate the city cultural characteristic and rich cultural connotation has significance meaning to he substance and cultural of urban construction. Xian is a famous historical and cultural city, with thousands years history of city construction and being capital of China. The development of Commercial pedestrian mall in Xian has the vital significance to city development and cultural construction. And also is the effective means to make Xian to be famous traditional culture the modern city.The study based on the research results of environmental psychology, behavior science, cultural psychology, urban planning and design and mainly from the following several aspects were studied.1 .Think of the relations between the Construction of Commercial pedestrian mall and the city culture.2. From this Angle of urban culture characteristics embodying in the designing of Commercial pedestrian mall the writing wants to discuss the cultural factors and urban design methods.3.Analyze the evolution of downtown of Xian and learn the formation of the business district and the city culture background.4. Based on the research results, this paper summarized and analyzed principle and method of Xian downtown Commercial pedestrian mall design based on the cultural characteristics.These are some conclusions under the study:1. Reviews the Commercial pedestrian mall in the development process and the related design theory and method and propose the thought of commercial walk street design based on urban culture.2.Through the researching of city culture theory and urban design theory puts forward the features and method based on cultural for Commercial pedestrian mall design. And discusses the relationship between Commercial pedestrian mall construction and city culture and the development.3.Based on the study and analysis of characteristics of Xian, summary three culture characters of it, these are ancient city culture and folk culture characteristics of Guanzhong area and modern urban culture features. Then give the design principles and methods for Xian downtown Commercial pedestrian mall: integrated principle of the construction of Commercial pedestrian mall; diversity principle of the cultural connotation; continuity principle of the city context; participation principle of the block construction; coordinating principle of economic and culture. Then give the design methods from the level of city, block, architecture and environment.