Renew&Design Of Commercial Street Space In Historical Block

The protection of historic block has stepped into the spotlight in the progress ofurban renewal. As a consequence of urban development, economic growth and the riseof tourism, commercial Street has entered historic block and gradually developed intoa certain urban typology.Commercial street in historic block has been growing rapidly by conserve andutilize its context. Therefore, What changes of the traditional space have taken placein such a process? Which spatial factors are involved in the protection and utilizationof traditional space? What kind of design techniques need to be applied? Authorbelieves that a feasible urban renewal theory could be found via paying close attentionto the space content of the commercial street of historic block.Therefore, the essay discusses the content of street space via following the clue:why-what-how to renew. Then it summarizes related document literature andanalyzing the famous domestic cases to find out the features, keys, and difficulties inthe spatial renewal of Commercial Street of historic block. Moreover, it tries toaddress an universal design principle based on case studies.The thesis can be divided into five parts:The first chapter is an introduction section which describes the background andthe objective of the subject. It also discusses the research methods and content. Thediscourse is made from a overall perspective of city, culture, economy and so on toanswer the question: why to renew the commercial space of the historic block.To find out the details of what to renew from the relevant theory, the secondchapter is the fundamental research of the theories that focus on the space elementsand the spatial features of the commercial street of historic block.The third chapter is the case studies which aims at the ubiquitous practical issueduring the renewal of the commercial street of historic block. It uses different modelsof historic block commercial street as the typical cases to find out what and how torenew at three levels: physical space, mental space and emotional space.The fourth chapter is the summary of the space renewal principles, practices anddesign features based on the former case studies. Furthermore it specifies the answerto "how to renew".To further support the author’s point of view with practice and complete the answer to "how to renew", the last chapter concludes the space designs of ChangshaBaiguoyuan and Hualongchi, which is under the direction from the previousdiscourse.