TY - GEN
T1 - A Framework of Urban Renewal for Leisure Space in Neighborhood Streets
T2 - 1st International Conference of Urban Climate, Sustainability, and Urban Design, UCSUD 2023
AU - Li, Yiqun
AU - Cheshmehzangi, Ali
AU - He, Bao Jie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Urban street spaces serve as a platform for fulfilling people's travel requirements and facilitating complicated and diverse social interactions. In this context, leisure spaces play a crucial role in urban streets. Nevertheless, with the acceleration of urbanization, the current design of street leisure space generally has problems of low quantity, inferior quality, and lack of humanism, which can not meet the needs of people’s rest and communication in the street space. This study applied environmental psychology and typology theories, selected Shazheng Street in Chongqing as the research object, explored the link between the urban street environment and leisure behavior, and proposed a practical and effective design framework for the renewal of neighborhood street leisure spaces. The design framework first analyzes the current status of street leisure space in terms of the general street layout, the building interface along the street, and the structure of sidewalk cross-sections, and then discusses where leisure spaces can be designed for different structures of sidewalk cross-sections, as well as the types and characteristics of existing rest facilities. Then, we creatively combined the Baidu heat map data analysis, which investigates the vitality of a wide range of streets, with behavioral mapping and questionnaires, which accurately investigate people's needs, to investigate people’s leisure needs accurately through the mutual validation of the results. Finally, we proposed zoning design strategies based on an analysis of the current situation and leisure needs. The findings of this study can serve as a reference for future renewal and design projects.
AB - Urban street spaces serve as a platform for fulfilling people's travel requirements and facilitating complicated and diverse social interactions. In this context, leisure spaces play a crucial role in urban streets. Nevertheless, with the acceleration of urbanization, the current design of street leisure space generally has problems of low quantity, inferior quality, and lack of humanism, which can not meet the needs of people’s rest and communication in the street space. This study applied environmental psychology and typology theories, selected Shazheng Street in Chongqing as the research object, explored the link between the urban street environment and leisure behavior, and proposed a practical and effective design framework for the renewal of neighborhood street leisure spaces. The design framework first analyzes the current status of street leisure space in terms of the general street layout, the building interface along the street, and the structure of sidewalk cross-sections, and then discusses where leisure spaces can be designed for different structures of sidewalk cross-sections, as well as the types and characteristics of existing rest facilities. Then, we creatively combined the Baidu heat map data analysis, which investigates the vitality of a wide range of streets, with behavioral mapping and questionnaires, which accurately investigate people's needs, to investigate people’s leisure needs accurately through the mutual validation of the results. Finally, we proposed zoning design strategies based on an analysis of the current situation and leisure needs. The findings of this study can serve as a reference for future renewal and design projects.
KW - Leisure space
KW - Urban regeneration
KW - Urban street
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85210246074&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-97-8401-1_50
DO - 10.1007/978-981-97-8401-1_50
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85210246074
SN - 9789819784004
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 693
EP - 705
BT - International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability and Urban Design
A2 - He, Bao-Jie
A2 - Prasad, Deo
A2 - Yan, Li
A2 - Cheshmehzangi, Ali
A2 - Pignatta, Gloria
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 11 November 2023 through 12 November 2023
ER -