Creation Of The Vitality Of Urban Street Space

Urban street space, as a part of the public space, is an important place for the people's lives, contacts and activities, and its vitality directly affects the vitality of the whole city. At present, the problems caused by urban construction have lead to street space losing vitality. However, how to reconstruct the vitality of street space to stimulate the vitality of the whole city appears more and more important.This thesis mainly studied the problems about how to create the vital street space. Firstly, it summed the causes of vitality disappeared from the material, spatial and human factors according to the current Chinese urban construction by studying the evolution of urban street space from three stages:pre-automobile age, automobile age, post automobile age basing on appearance of the automobile. Then, analyzed the structure of the vital elements of street space from the aspects of its scale and interface, diversity, human facilities, safety and abundance activities according to the theories, and took the Harbin Central Street as an example to analyze its vitality sources in order to provide theoretical guidance and reference about how to create the vital street space. Through the above analysis, finally, this paper proposed s principles to create vital street space, and proposed four countermeasures:created from the material elements, spatial elements, cultural elements and abundant activity, which contained many elements of the street space:land, buildings, facilities, green, scale, external space and so on, and provided some guidance for the design of street space of the district urban designing and detailed planning in the future.