A Case Study Of Streetscape Renovation Of Chongqing In Walking Experience

Meeting the development of mobility makes our urban planning and constructionface the slogan of "People-oriented" and the reality of "Car-oriented". Urban structure istransforming into the feature of "fast","efficient" and "integrated", and urban road islosing the original characteristics of the "street", driven by the demand of economicbenefit and modernization. Although part of the old city retains the space and functionalcharacteristics which could appropriate to walking life, the features of walking life areweakening since the street environment is lack of self-renewal mechanisms.With the increasing prominence of practical contradictions between rapid urbandevelopment of space needs and the shortage of land resources, limited resources isan urgent need for the city to change the current extensive development; one way is theright organic update and intensive use of the old city. As one of the urban renewal wayswith a mildly and gradual path, streetscape renovation has became the way ofreasonable transformation of old streets in Chongqing as well as the majority of ourcities.The current streetscape renovation has improved environmental quality of oldstreets and, to some extent, promoted the pedestrian construction of urban construction.However, streetscape renovation, which starting point is to improve the image of thecity, also exposed many problems, in which the most important is lack of individualcare. How to face the value of old streets’ renovation to pedestrian construction of streetin the city and to arouse the consciousness of walking demand in streetscaperenovation through the study of urban planning, has become a pressing issue.Based on three typical streets of Shabei-Shazheng-Shanan Street, HuangjuepingGraffiti Street and Zhongsansi Street and combined the pedestrian construction relatedtheory, this paper made a more detailed investigation for spatial characteristics, the wayand the effect of renovation of research object by the form of field research, fieldobservation, surveys and analysis of map. Spatial characteristics study of streets hasbeen analyzed from two aspects of walking and shared values, contradictorycoexistence of prosperity and rundown; remediation manner and effect have beenanalyzed from four aspects of walking space, function, scenery and facilities.Meanwhile, evaluation of the effect of every street’s renovation has been made fromfive hierarchy of needs of patency, safety, convenience, comfort, place of pedestrian space. Last, comprehensive comparison of selected three cases of the streetscaperenovation with different features would be made,so that comprehensive evaluation ofsome common and the impact of the pros and cons of the individual practices topedestrian construction in streetscape renovation in Chongqing would be made out and,meanwhile, Revelation of this study to future urban construction would be proposed inend of the article.The paper follows the logical of "basic theory-the actual state of the investigation-analysis and evaluation" to organize the articles main content, the full text can bedivided into three parts:The first part, including the first two chapters that is the basic theory research inthe paper; the first chapter briefly describes the research background, origin, purpose,meaning extent, content and method; and define the relevant concepts involved in thepaper. The second chapter elaborates on the course of development, stage characteristicsand theoretical research about two aspects of improving walking environment and citybeautiful movement.The second part, Including third chapter, Chapter IV and Chapter V, is the surveyanalysis section of the paper; on the basis of the familiar with the relevant theory, thepart to further clarified the main target and the main content of the paper survey,developed plans and procedures of the actual state of the investigation; from the streetsspatial characteristics, streets remediation efforts and methods, it has made a real-timeand follow-up survey about selected three streets and analyzed advantages andshortages in renovation. Meanwhile, it has evaluated the renovation of three streets onthe view of pedestrians’ space requirements.The third part, the chapter VI; It is the conclusion of the article. By studyingcomprehensive comparison of the cases, it has made a overall evaluation aboutstreetscape renovation and pointed out some common and the impact of the pros andcons of the individual practices to pedestrian construction in streetscape renovation inChongqing. Finally, this study would be extent appropriately and some revelations tofuture urban construction of this study would be proposed.The last section summarizes the entire paper, and look into the future research.