Our cities are evolving, growing as amazing speed on techniques. Various informations and knowledges are making up an axis of city growth.
Through the use of mass media and internet, information exchanges and knowledge communications make city recogn...
Our cities are evolving, growing as amazing speed on techniques. Various informations and knowledges are making up an axis of city growth.
Through the use of mass media and internet, information exchanges and knowledge communications make city recognize the circumstance about growth and change of many cities in the world. Also, the comparison of cities has been easy. The acquired and recognized comparison of cities make us demand compositions of being better city space and needs of comfortable surroundings. And as rising the qualitative level of life, people want improvements of life surroundings and city spaces to keep pace with the city development speed. However our life spaces still do not keep pace with the city development speed and do not develop as world-wide city in functional and esthetical.
These are caused by quantitative development and development logic not being considered future. In the development logic, we have decorated our surroundings with new, clean and beautiful; for respites and beauties of our past cities are old fashioned, inconvenient, not clean and not satisfy present functions. But it make nostalgia for past increase more and more.
The world-level cities, same to us, have been difficulties in arranging and preserving of past culture and the heritage by development pressures. In order to clear up these problems, they have made analyses and plannings for a long term, and shown affections and devotions for their city to bring about sustainable vitality about mutation of urban spaces. In result, the city has been come out life surrounding and acting which people want, the economic growth in whole city, industrial growth, expansion of culture and art spaces, and so on. The opinion difference for cities becomes a kind of network which is liking past, present and future. If our opinion for cities would be changed just a little bit, there is no sense of separation in city space and feeling of being alienated caused by forgetting past.
Now, we have to endeavor to make our city space which grow and become extinct with us to be sustainable and creative, preserve past culture and the heritage, increase effects of new techniques and industry, match a ground of human acting and a life surrounding to the flow of the times. In the effort way, continuous concerns and devotions for our city space are needed. Also the elements and strategies, which are able to raise quality of life definitely, are needed.
It has to lay emphasis on the concerns of cultures which is exist together cities, as the elements which achieve regeneration and growth of city space and raise quality of life. The concerns of cultures will be come out cultural spaces, cultural facilities, cultural acting, and so on. And we have to lay emphasis on the overall viewpoint rather than the individual viewpoint about concrete matters. Every kind of policies and plans for cultural city, with the correct understanding about cultures, needs concrete strategies and plans which are able to utilize effectively the culture meaning․behavioral․physical characteristics. By changing the economic system, many other cities select cultures as the strategy for development and activation of city, and cultures have been settled the hub means. We have to concentrate our efforts on understanding our cultures with our own point of view and strategy-making we need, not accepting foreign cultures and strategies.
Also together with cultures, the present age is a period of image. So reinterpretation of city-scape which is able to form city individuality and city identity. The discussion about preservations and improvements of city-scape have been started in Europe after World War II. Institutional․systematic administration of city-scape at present have been spread to all over the world. So, above preservation and administration of city-scape as well as enforcement, many countries and cities have utilized them as important strategic ways which build up city identity; forming fine views of city, constructing characteristic city images, strengthening competitive power of city, and so on.
The plan and the strategy connected with such city-scape, above just fine views of city, have to be operated as substantial strategies that improve the individuality of each city and raise quality of life.
With the rational operation of cultures and city-scape, researches of streetscape are also needed; for making up city's conformation and maintaining it, networking cultures and city-scape.
The streets as important factors making up city-scape, above just functional․physical․social functions, form city's image and identity. The streets have to connect with the functions as a security of cultural space and general life space.
However, it is true that our streetscape doesn't accord with the functions have mentioned before. There are many things that weaken or injure functions of street space; unsettles cars along the street and thoughtless arrangement of street facilities, lacking unity of public facilities and street signs, not matching building shape and color, developments not being considered individualities and characteristics of local community
In order to arrange these problems, this study has focused on providing a program to do for the good of culture and city, culture and scenery, culture and human being. This study establish creating streetscape and networking strategies of culture city for the physical․functional changes as well as time․aesthetic․social․creative changes. Also this study propose the means of urban design, as a culture-corridor, and guide line for creating streetscape which is able to express actions and behaviors of cultural life in daily life and to make up city images and identity.
The synthetic goal of this study is focused on the future city. The future city is different from the past city pressed by development and technology. It can develop by forming a culture and city-scape harmonized with culture and art, calmness and beauty.
This study, by correct understanding of wrong views about existing cultures, has focused on providing regeneration of cultural space; the most ideal and matching with city space and on creating streetscape appears in settlement space and cultural space. In this study, the direction for cultural city composition is set by establishing images of existing cultures and analysis of connected policies. And this study propose that our usual streets become satisfiable and enjoyable for everyone.
The cultural cities in the 21st century must exert creative approaches of cultural space which is central to leisure activities and rest. The cultural cities can compose place-meaning cultural spaces which are guaranteed various cultural actions and make up city-scape and cultural-scape which make the most of local characteristics and individualities. At last, we have to make our cities keep the sustainable development by regenerating streetscape, as a usual cultural-life space and general life space, which is keeping and forming city's conformation