"Postmark" Of Urban Road

The manhole covers are the basic environmental facilities of city that are often ignored by human beings.With their image following the same pattern,most of us reject them because their conventional and old-fashioned appearance affect the road environment.However,rely on the peculiarity of their position,them not only are the integral components but also become the essential device that are saturated.With the high-speed development of cities,they try the best they could and various devices to make image.Nevertheless,the promotion of city image have to change by redesigning environmental facilities of city.As the detail of city,they play a increasingly significant role in the city development.Begin with city image,this paper tries transforming the covers to urban landscape:Through studying related reference and theoretical foundation,it proposes the humanity,diversity,ecologic and artistic tendency of the covers more than their inherent function.What is more,it raises the subsidiary functional of suggestive guide,region and inheriting city culture.Further,it analysis elaborately the relationship among the covers,the city and human.In the chapter 3,it tries to conclude the basic principle and sum up the design method which applies to practice case of manhole covers design of East Lake Scenic Area of Wuhan in the chapter 4.Ultimately,it further examines the theory through combine theory with practice.I expect that this study could provide the reference for development of the manhole covers.