Research On The Public Space Of The Xiagang Community In Xiamen

Rapid urbanization is rife after the industrial revolution, making rapid andeffective solution to the space problems as urban development priorities. Planners ofthe formats available, standardized space designed to address problems of urbanspace is a shortcut. However because of the different developments in the variousregions, which does not generally meet the pluralistic development of urban space.Especially in the old city in spatial process of incremental updates, relative to thenewly-developed plot, a "white" background of space, facing the old city communitydiversity and variability in the form of public space and the way people interact withdiverse, planners learned consistently "top down" approach to urban public space hereis not adapted. We should learn to the real world, understanding of public space inresidential areas of the old city and its interrelationship with residents ’ livingbehavior generation mechanism to, mining old town public space from the bottom upincremental update strategy. This paper for Xiagang, a slow organic growth within theold city community public space and its interaction with the residents ’ livingbehavior studies. Not only focusing on specific analysis of spatial elements andhuman environment from space, perspective of daily life for many other elaborated.Strike a space on a functional basis, giving social space from the explanation of howpeople respond to the current environment, to find such high density, seeminglychaotic public space behind the order. Research process in the combines has spacereal state investigation, and acts places of observation records, and environmentgroups of in-depth interviews and graphic analysis, investigation method, through onXiamen old city community—Xiagang public space material form, and space usingand the people acts, tries to reached following target:1. master Xiagang old citycommunity public space material form constitute;2. on Xiagang old city communityof public space using for discussion; expected spectrum out a belonging to place inthe public space of cognitive map, Construction of Xiagang community residents ’living space characteristic of the old city.3. through the interactions between usersand public spaces: case studies and analysis, summed up the interaction between people and space, and on this basis community public space in urban renewal inXiagang，presented updated policies, and provide insights on new public space designin residential area.