Study On Cityscape Planning In Old City In Hekou County Based On City Image

As one of the three major ports in Yunnan province,the old city area in Hekou Yao Autonomous County is located at an unique development zones."Thirty years off the coast,thirty years along border",development policies for border cities have brought Hekou opportunities as well as challenges.With more and more tourists visit this old city,will tourists be disappointed about the monotonous city image and disorganized,poorly landscape? To make the old city more attractive,it is essentially important for Hekou to focus on developing cityscape planning.However,building up more impressive cityscape,optimizing urban structure,improving quality of spatial and living environment and highlighting the cultural background of the old city should be paid attention during cityscape planning,which are also key points in this thesis.The essence of the cityscape is the sum of the cityscape-reflection material elements and the process of human perception and interaction with the city.However,exciting cityscape planning barely considers citizens perception of the city where they live in.Therefore,it is necessary to learn people`s feeling about living in the city,present views and expectation toward the city through questionnaire and cognitive map method.This thesis takes the city image as research perspective.Cityscape planning of the old city in Hekou county is the research object.On subject and the object perspectives,through questionnaire and cognitive map method,this thesis sums up the present problems emerging in the old city in Hekou,which shows the municipal carriers are image roads,borders,area,node and markers.The following part of this thesis is that how cityscape of the old city could be designed at macro,middle and micro level.Last but not least,the application of city image in cityscape planning and its design strategy are summarized,which provides a complete and featured cityscape plan for the old city in Hekou county.