Space and Place in Urban Design

Revitalize Social Values in the Context of Shanghai Transportation Hub

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

H. Zhang Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Maurice Harteveld Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S.A. Read Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2017 Hongyi Zhang
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Published Date

30-06-2017

Language

English

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Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

In general, people and environment are two main properties in today’s strategy plans of urban development, which are also essential elements of urban design (Carmona et al, 2010). Designers promote more on human dimension design that reflects spatial dimension of environment such as the eye level city in their urban design topics. Gehl (2010) contributes to the idea of “ poor maintained urban environment” and “car oriented”, which causes the deserted space. In some cases, place has different meanings with space. According to Tuan (1977), space could be described as a location without any human beings, but place refers to how people use and perceive the space. In fact, only the minority of urban space is being used as public place. On the one hand, those unpopular spaces do not consider into human approach, lack attractive functions and reasons for people to use it. On the other hand, some poor urban space work as main transportation hub that is crowded with people in the low quality of human psychological aspects. Transportation hub (railway station and metro station) is a special space that holds both necessary and optional activities. Recently, the square of the transportation hub that aims to serve passengers and citizens suffers from many problems of public qualities (Juxin, 2015). Some spatial interventions that refer to human factor aspect are essential for improving nature quality of transportation hubs.