The Space Value Of Commercial Plaza In Downtown District

The downtown district is the vital core zone of a city, where assembles the most charming landscape and the massive commercial activities. As a very important life style in the city, whether the commerce succeed is related to the city surroundings. The commercial plaza in downtown district, as a public place, locates on the prime site. It associated with the development of the city and the commerce. And the lifestyle and shopping-style update with the time, the same as the consumers' psychology and action, which made the commercial public place become diverse and mixed. It's the change in modern commerce that combining the commercial activity with leisure activity in plaza and social-culture. It's the multifunctional place.The space value is the estimation that whether the commercial plaza in downtown district meet the needs of people's life, which can help people adjust the way of city construction and management. It's hard to be estimated thoroughly from single aspect, so we should investigate from various aspects and different viewpoints. Based on the theories the article studied from different disciplines in urban planning, urban sociology and urban economics. Combined with the example in the city of Ningbo, the social value, the landscape value, the economic value and the relationship among them were explored. The idea of balancing the multi-value of the commercial plaza in downtown district was proposed. It's an innovation in a certain perspective of disciplines integration that makes suggestions in urban planning, urban developing. This research can provide a reference for design and construction of the commercial plaza in downtown district.The full article is divided into four chapters, key parts are chapter 4 and chapter 5.Chapter 1 Introduction. The section described the research background and significance. It determined the objectives and methodology of system and built a logical framework of the research thesis.Chapter 2 Analysis of the concepts and theories the related research. This section analyzed the concepts of downtown district and commercial plaza, identified the concepts of space value.Chapter 3 The Space Value of Commercial Plaza in Downtown District. The chapter explored the social value, the landscape value,the economic value and the relationship among them in detail.Chapter 4 The practical meaning of the exploration of the space value. This chapter expounded the practical meaning of the value of commercial plaza in downtown district through some examples.