With the society transforms from industrial to post-industrial, the traditional value of "working to live" will be replaced by the new value of "working for life", and a new "leisure time" is coming. Leisure not only contributes to the economy, but also has become a "major role" from the "marginal role" in cultural and social life, In the economic industry structure, the proportion of employees working for the leisure industry has increased significantly, and leisure services have been changed from standardized and centralized services to personalized ones. With the increasing leisure-oriented lifestyle, leisure has become closely related to everyone's quality of life. Keynesh had predicted that mankind will face the real permanent problem for the first time-how to spend leisure. Along with this issue is the reconstruction of the values lifestyles and labor awareness.As noted in the"Charter of Athens": recreation is one of the four functions of city. In China, along with the Reform and Opening up policy, national economy had developed rapidly and the standard of living had been rising, life-style is on the transition from food and clothing style to that of well-being. This shift has made it clear a prefigure of leisure society which existed only in illusion in the past. To adapt to this requirement, the exploration of leisure, and the creation of the urban public leisure space has become an indispensibe area which can not be ignored in the research of urban design.In an industrial age centering for production, we are considering more about the production space instead of leisure space. With post-industrial society forward, we will have more and more leisure time, which will enable leisure a very important... |