The Values of New Urbanism Community Planning Guided by the Concept of Sustainable Urbanism

Urbanization started from the industrial era,and developed in the post-industrial era.During this period,urban community planning method changed gradually.Smart Growth,New Urbanism and Green Building Movements has provided the basis for sustainable urbanism theory and practice,which shares with the values of economics,sociology and environmental science.Scholars integrated the urban environmental movements mentioned above as a practical guide of sustainable development.New Urbanism,in response to the concept of sustainable urbanism,has been the mainstream of urban planning in Europe and the United States.The core of sustainable New Urbanism,according to some foreign scholars,is spatial justice,a reflection of social justice,which also helps accomplish the spatial functional values of reasonable community layout and the planning of spatial justice values.In many foreign countries,this theory has already come into effect.However,in China,most relevant theoretical studies are general introductions and reviews and practical ones focus on instructions to urban planning in material aspect,with the absence of written version of values of New Urbanism community planning.Therefore,from the perspective of values,studying New Urbanism has instructions on community planning.Studies,in the aspects of spatial justice,values and dignity,focus on values of New Urbanism community planning,illustrating its guiding concepts and planning principles.New Urbanism,under the guidance of the concept of sustainable urbanism,aims at transforming the urban space and creating local-socialization space to meet the daily needs of people nowadays.The New Urbanism community planning,in this article,should follow the compactness principle,the diversity principle,the walk-first principle,the environment importance principle and the high-quality principle.Based on the above analysis,the connotation of social values and spatial values of New Urbanism community planning has been clarified.Social values cover human nature,spatial diversity,community equality and coordination of social surroundings.Correspondingly,spatial values are a reflection of valuing equal accessibility of different classes to public places,improving the livability of social space inhabited by people of different classes,as well as bettering the social equality by compelling livable standard.New Urbanism successfully combined traditional values standard with environmental coordination,spatial diversity,social sense of community and behavior scale of humanism of urban spatial construction,and put the modern 'good community' idea into practice.Finally,by critically looking at the theory and practicability of values of New Urbanism community planning,we try to put forward some measures to solve the general spatial injustice in practice.