The Research Of Creating Public Space’s Vitality In Downtown Xuanwei

Resulting for the accelerating of urbanization, people’s living standard is greatly improved, which further makes interpersonal activities more frequent and diverse. All these lead people to go outdoors and spend time in public, thus risingthe quality demands for public spaces.. The most crucial point for public space to maintain the vitality of the city is its ability to meet the people’s needs in terms of physical, mental, psychological, behavioral norms, which all reflect designer’s humanity for users, space design responsibilities and obligations in social life. In recent years, the number of public spaces has increased significantly in central urban area of Xuanwei and their facilities are gradually improving. However, I find some urban spaces are of extraordinary vitality and amazingly popular while some other spaces attract few people and become into "lost space". Therefore I hope to find the factors that affect the vitality of urban public spaces which would help me to find out how to build the dynamics of urban public space.This thesis is divided into six chapters.The first chapter describes the background of my study, defines the range of the study, defines the object of study and content, research methods, frameworks and significance. Besides, this chapter also analyzes and summarizes the related research in China and abroad.The second chapter studies the theoretical basis of environmental behavior, environmental psychology, defines the related concepts of public space, space vitality and summarizes the importance of urban public space.The third chapter briefly analyzes of the history of the urban central public space development. This chapter also studies and analyzes the current situation of residential land within the city center, administrative office space and layout of business services site. Four typical and representative public places, Meihuan Mountain Park, West River Garden, Workers’Cultural Palace Wanshui park were selected to beresearch objects to study the number of users in public space, people’s behavior in public space and time spending in public space. Data were collected and analyzedto get the Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE). The fourth chapter raises issues about the current situation of central urban public spaces on the basis of the survey. Analyzes the factors affecting the status of public space vitality.The fifth chapter summarizes the principles and methods to create the public spaces vitality depending on the factors impacting it. The same principles and methods are applied on the actual cases of Wanshui park in the city. Then I propose the design optimization recommendations by discussing the renewal scheme.Chapter VI is the conclusions of the developing the central urban public space vitality.