TITLE:
The Influence of Residents’ Opinions on the Redesign of Urban Underground Streets: A Case Study from Diyi Underground Street
AUTHORS:
Pei Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Visitors’ Opinion, Resident, Post-Occupancy Evaluation, Redesign, Urban Underground Space, Recreation, Urban Underground Street
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Building Construction and Planning Research,
Vol.6 No.4,
November
14,
2018
ABSTRACT: The rapid development of urbanization and rapid growth of urban population have brought about various urban problems, and the development of cities to the ground and underground has become an inevitable choice. Underground street is a kind of underground space types, and it is also an important urban recreational resources and tourism resources. The evaluation of underground street users, especially the residents and tourists, has important reference value for the recreational resources’ redevelopment of underground street. Firstly, this paper reviews the relevant research literature on underground street and Post-Occupancy Evaluation theory, then chooses Diyi Underground Street, Chengdu, China, as the research object, and conducts a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews on residents’ shopping intention from five dimensions of underground street environment, decoration, commercial form, public facilities and other aspects. Finally, the survey data are analyzed quantitatively. The results show that some influence factors such as air quality, daylighting, decoration style etc. greatly affect the willingness of residents to enter the street. Therefore, residents’ recreational experience should be emphasized during the underground street re-planning according to the above factors.