Specialty Commercial Pedestrian Street Genesis

After the reform and opening up, China's economy has gone through nearly 20 years of sustained development, urban construction will inevitably become the government at all levels, leadership and the public in solving the basic daily needs after the focus of attention. In recent years commercial pedestrian street building is not only present in major cities in the surging trend, recently there have been some small cities and towns tend to spread. Refused to incomplete statistics, by the end of 2004 or above county-level city commercial street has more than 3000 stocks, in such circumstances, especially when further in-depth study of the importance of pedestrian malls.By numerous shops, restaurants, service shops co-composition, the mix of laws arranged according to a certain street, known as Commercial Street. By a number of combination of commercial street adjacent areas, known as the business district. The city "to walk as the main target shoppers take full account of shoppers walking behavior, psychological and scale and design and construction of the commercial district" is the object of study of this article.Of modern urban pedestrian malls first appeared in North America and Europe, the developed countries, the development of urban space in the West the ancient and the modern urban environment, business concept a better combination of methods.Research data show that the 20th century, the United States built a total of 60-70 years about 200 full commercial pedestrian street, but after many years of hard going, after more than half had to be canceled and was replaced by a dealer traffic streets. In addition to other reasons, the most important thing can not simultaneously satisfy both passenger and vehicular traffic accessibility, especially private vehicles, accessibility. In the right foot on the definition of commercial district, our country in many areas simply walking commercial district is treated as a full-foot commercial district is to take a misunderstanding.Some studies abroad, the organization of the different ways depending on the traffic, will walk the three main types of commercial street environment:All pedestrian malls, bus pass commercial pedestrian street and semi-commercial pedestrian street.All commercial pedestrian street is the original streets of vehicles that can be closed to the street floor pavement, trees, street furniture and other landscape features, such as sculptures and fountains to rectify this improvement, and can provide visual continuity and a weekly feature, from the both the landscape and sense of place created a sense of urban centers.Public access is a commercial pedestrian street in the original business than downtown streets closed to traffic in private vehicles, allowing only buses, taxis or light rail crossings, which is the city center of retail business with goods retail corridor. Need to widen the sidewalks, the interface does not allow parking, streetscape specially designed and processed. It actually would be along the retail, office, hotels, entertainment and residential and other activities linked.Semi-commercial pedestrian street is to allow the passage of private vehicles, but the appropriate reduction in the amount of traffic movement and street-level parking to increase the human congratulate streetscape area, to improve the pavement on the ground, plant configuration, and street furniture such as Zuo Deng, lighting, logo, and other can provide visual continuity of the facilities, to enhance the linear features of the streets for the City Center to create a new streetscape. It usually includes a more prosperous urban centers, a number of commercial streets.Commercial pedestrian street will inevitably bring about the success of commercial development around the block, so that pedestrian malls are formed by the rapid expansion of commercial pedestrian street trends and possibilities. Cleveland, Ohio, city center in order to maintain the economic vitality of the shopping area, set foot on the commercial streets, and their practice is 75% of those who belong to a business on the wholesale and retail office or apartment as a small area on foot commercial. This region can guarantee that the characteristics of pedestrian-oriented shopping areas. This region can guarantee that the characteristics of pedestrian-oriented shopping areas to maintain, and through the shopping district as to minimize vehicle conflict to protect public safety.Based on the above analysis, in this article we will walk Commercial Street is defined as "to walk as the main target shoppers take full account of shoppers walking behavior, psychological and scale and design and construction of the commercial district." On the one hand can be easily analyzed and explained the problem, but this can facilitate the analysis and interpretation issues, on the other hand, you can clarify in the minds of some people's misunderstanding of the commercial pedestrian street.