The Study On Urban Design Of Small Tourist Cities Based On Cognitive Experience

Small Tourist City with quantity of special tourist attractions and ecological environment suitable for living,plays a significant part in the development system of China‘s tourist cities.With the acceleration of urbanization and the improvement of urban infrastructures and the function of tourism,the construction scale of Small Tourist City has widely expanded and distributed,presenting more diversified tapes.However,in recent years,its development in the process of urban development has revealed some problems,such as the widespread fragmentation of interior urban landscape,the urban boundary spreading disorderly to the countryside as well as cityscape‘s and landscape ?s construction lacking of characteristics.Consequently,there are a large number of homogeneous urban public spaces.In addition,Small Tourist City lacks the integration with the whole urban spatial form on the development of scale,diversification,and specialization,and its lacking of local characteristics thematic tourism activities or regional folk cultural events and relevant featured urban spaces,which fails to leave a unique and profound impression for tourists.Thus tourists‘ poor tourism experience weakens Small Tourist City‘s tourism competitiveness and long-term development momentum.Therefore,it would be a key approach to combine the renovation of urban space and the needs of industrial development of Small Tourist City.The paper takes Shaoshan City as a case study sample,aiming to improve and promote tourists‘ cognitive experience during the process of urban tourism as the goal orientation of urban space design.With the intention to explore a set of pertinent city design strategy and method that can improve the spatial charm of Small Tourist City,which can ultimately reach to the purpose of enhance the attraction to tourists.There are five chapters in the paper.Chapter one mainly describes the research background,research object and research content as well as carding the research results at home and abroad concerned with research object.Chapter two elucidates the basic conception of cognitive experience and correlative theories.Based on cognitive experience,pointing out the competitiveness gap between Small Tourist City and medium or large tourist cities in the context of urban tourism boom and the Small Tourist City‘s spatial characteristics under a small scale;verifying the applicability of cognitive experience theory to the urban design of Small Tourist City;meanwhile,it analyses tourists‘ cognitive experience need during urban tourism and indicates its key points of design and the design principles from the perspective of cognitive experience.Chapter three takes Shaoshan City,a Small Tourist City,as a case study sample,through field research,summing up the present problems of Shaoshan City‘s urban spatial environment as well as the principal contradictions of urban tourism development.Based on these problems and contradictions,the author puts forward the optimization strategy of Shaoshan City‘s urban space design mainly from three aspects: the integration of urban spatial structure,the characteristics shape of the landscape and the organization of urban tourism activities.In the fourth chapter,guided by the design strategy,the paper makes an analysis of Shaoshan City‘s central area‘s roads,nodes,signs,regions and boundaries,these five urban spatial elements.Furthermore,from the perspective of cognition experience,according to five urban spatial elements of Shaoshan City,targeted optimized measures and proposals are put forward.Chapter five contains the conclusion,deficiency and prospect of the research.