The concept and types of street furniture



Urban street furniture is also called urban furniture. A city is like a family with living room, garden, bedroom, kitchen, etc. it embodies the closest relationship between human and nature, making it convenient, leisure, and highly humanized. It is an important part of urban environmental public facilities. Using the refinement of urban symbols and integrating them into the design of urban street furniture, rendering the spiritual context of urban space from the aspects of modeling and color using function, is the image power of the city throughout the living environment of citizens.




Urban furniture includes two concepts: Architecture and facilities, that is to say, it includes a part of small urban construction facilities and public facilities. It mainly refers to traffic, safety, business, consultation, rest and environmental protection, such as waiting booths, signboards, sales booths, street lamps, garbage cans, small sculptures, etc. Generally, it is located in streets, squares, green areas or other public parts, which is an important part of urban environment and urban landscape. The reason why it is called "urban furniture" is that it accurately explains people's desire to make the city as harmonious, clean, comfortable and beautiful as home. They form the environmental characteristics of streets and squares, are indispensable elements in street space and landscape organization, and are important parts of reflecting the characteristics and cultural connotation of urban landscape



The reason why it is called "furniture" is that it contains people's vision of urban life. Outdoor places can be as convenient and comfortable as home. Although the definition is not very strict, it gives people a kind of warm feeling, which makes the cold facilities warm.



The concept of "urban furniture" has a specific meaning, which really impresses people. This "profundity" lies in that it prompts a new point of view, guides people to re-examine the things around them, to think about the significance of the existence of these things, and advocates the "reasonable" construction of the present and the future from the perspective of seeking for the harmony of the "man thing environment" system.



From fruit boxes and traffic signs to bus stops, urban lighting facilities and other urban environmental facilities, the wisdom and creativity of citizens will be integrated. Urban environmental facilities refer to the mailbox, peel box, telephone booth, leisure seat, bus shelter, traffic sign, billboard, lighting facilities, flower bed, publicity flag, etc. set on the sidewalk of the main street. These are all accessible service facilities in the life of the citizens, also known as "urban furniture". The term "urban furniture" generally refers to the public facilities in the urban environment. Although the definition is not very strict, it has a kind of friendly language sense.



2、 Classification



The public infrastructure of urban public environment facilities such as bus waiting kiosks, newspaper kiosks, public telephone kiosks, garbage containers, automatic public toilets, leisure seats, street lights, road guardrails, traffic signs, guide signs, billboards, flower bowls, urban sculptures, fitness equipment and children's amusement facilities.



According to its service functions, it is generally classified as:



1. Public leisure service facilities



The "urban furniture" set up in the urban public space to meet the requirements of people's rest, fitness and entertainment mainly includes rest seats, fitness and entertainment facilities, telephone kiosks, public water dispensers, post boxes, newspaper kiosks, lighting fixtures, etc.



2. Transportation service facilities



It refers to the facilities mainly used for traffic indication and organization in urban streets, including street lights, traffic indicators, traffic signs, road signs, pedestrian overpasses, waiting booths, waiting booths, roadblocks, bicycle parking facilities, gas stations, barrier free facilities, etc.



3. Public health service facilities

The "urban furniture" set up in the urban public space to meet people's public health requirements mainly includes garbage cans (ashtrays) and public toilets.



4. Information service facilities



"Urban furniture" is set up to meet people's cognition of urban public space and environment and guide people to quickly arrive at the destination, mainly including outdoor advertisements, information posting boards, bulletin boards, guide boards, etc.



5. Beautify and enrich space facilities



It refers to those facilities that add artistic atmosphere to urban streets and beautify and enrich the urban public space environment, including flower beds, sculptures, fountains, cascading waterfalls, ground art pavement, decorative lighting, landscape sketches, etc.

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