Regional Landscape Design Study On Cities’ Traditional Commercial Pedestrian Mall

Under the influence of urbanization, city construction and development is speeding updramatically in China, which draw more and more attentions from not only the governments, butalso many other people, such as policymakers, developers and even common citizens. As animportant (component) part of a cit’ys construction, the protection, development and planningdesign of traditional commercial pedestrian streets has become a hot issue in today’s society.Traditional commercial pedestrian street formed its characteristics under both city naturalenvironment and social development process, it is a special form of historical and cultural blocks，what’s more，it is one of the areas that with a high density of population, city commercial andeconomy. On one hand, as a special commercial zone and important city of public cultural space,the regional landscape design of traditional commercial pedestrian street, should be one of theimportant contents of contemporary urban design，so that we can improve the image of the city asa whole, show the city region characteristic, and promote the development of urban tourismeconomy. On the other hand, as the global spread of culture inifltration, the traditionalcommercial pedestrian street landscape is affected, in the design of the total environment,because of the understanding of urbanization of decision makers at all levels lacking the supportof regional culture, developers getting rich quick and designers’ xenophilia, the blinddevelopment and dismantle of traditional commercial pedestrian street，the landscape there hasbeen lack of geographical features, excessive commercialization, poor Street recognitionproblems.Based on these special signiifcance and problems, this article studies traditional commercialpedestrian mall landscape and seeks traditional regional pedestrian landscape design strategy.First of all, the traditional commercial Street and its landscape is deifned，putting forward theelements of proposes traditional regional design of commercial pedestrian street landscape andtraditional regional pedestrian landscape design combining with the theory of regional design.Secondly, the regional design a key element as its premise, chose Suzhou pingjiang road, ciqikouancient street in Chongqing，Hangzhou Yu street of Southern Song dynasty and Xi an collegedoor pedestrian street as four traditional commercial pedestrian street of the pedestrian street,in-depth analyzing from aspects of physical space environments and the geographical andcultural environment, exploring how its landscape relfects regionality, how to design regionalexpress, and summarizing.. Again, based on the previous theory and case analysis, put forwardthe regional traditional commercial pedestrian street landscape design strategy: designgoals(Expression geographical features, and interpretation geographical culture), and designprinciples (traditional and modern of symbiosis, and respect geographical of natural andHumanities environment, uniifcation of integrity and diversity), and entity space environment ofregionality design method (space form design，space interface design, and environment landscapefacilities design)，and geographical culture atmosphere creation (folk culture reproduction, marketplace life reproduction, and traditional commercial culture reproduction and restructuring).