This study defined as ‘Simplified Courtyard’ a type of urban house widely built in the 1970s 1990s in small cities in North China. Together with their public and semi-public …
Public spaces are ‘stages upon which the drama of communal life unfolds’ (Carr et al., 1992). They stimulate communication and integration among people of different social classes …
Tourism has recently been viewed as an economic growth engine for Chinese small historic cities, including Zhengding in Northern China. However, the intensive...
As small-scale public space containing daily life, miniature public space is an important tool of micro-regeneration. Firstly, this paper analyzes the concept...
Grey and green infrastructure are important resources for constructing public space in cities. ‘Emerald Necklace’, Charles River Park and ‘Big Dig’ are analyzed...
Responding to the relationship between architectural design and the production of urban mini-type public space,and from the perspective of urban design,this article...