Improving Strategies On Negative Space Of Leisure And Civic Squares Based On Post-Occupancy Evaluation

With the rapid development of urbanization in China and the improvement of people’sliving standard, the concerns and the demands for public space such as city squares arebecoming more and more important. However, a lot of existing city squares focus on thesignificance of aesthetics; as a result, the needs of users are always ignored. In order toimprove the qualities of city squares, this paper introduces the POE and focuses on therequirements of users. Through this, we can feedback the assessment information to the actualoperation, reflect the care for people and actually improve the quality of square space.The paper first summarizes the related researches and chooses three representative citysquares in Nanjing as research objects. Through looking into users’ behaviors and actives,enclosed semantic questionnaire and random interviews, we collect a lot of information. Basedon the Analytic Hierarchy Process, the PTS-Points of the three squares can be calculated.Finally, the paper proposed Quality-improvement strategies of the negative spaces in the threesquares in Nanjing. There will be positive meanings and reference values in construction andtransformation of city squares in future.The paper falls into six chapters with about74,147Chinese characters,138illustrations(122figures and16tables) and3appendixes.Chapter1: Introduction. Introducing background information and significance of thisstudy, defines key concepts, proposes research framework, and makes a review of relatedresearch at home and abroad.Chapter2: Researches about Leisure and Civic squares. The paper gives a basic researchof the origin of city squares, development history and the evolution of modern city squares.Chapter3: The theory and practice of POE. The paper gives a general overview ofultimate principle of POE, Research Status at home and abroad and the main research methods.Based on these, the evaluation factors and their weight values can be calculated.Chapter4: Technical investigation and analysis of Leisure and Civic squares in Nanjing.Doing POE researches on the three squares. According to both SD curve values and weightvalues, the PTS-Points of three Leisure and Civic squares can be calculated.Chapter5: The Quality-improvement strategies of negative spaces of Leisure and Civicsquares in Nanjing. Through theoretical and field researches, the paper proposedQuality-improvement strategies of negative spaces about three Leisure and Civic squares inNanjing.Chapter6: Conclusion. The paper draws a comprehensive conclusion of the text,proposes innovative points, and prospects for follow-up studies.