论边缘空间

对城市空间的探讨大多重主体空间而容易忽略边缘空间，边缘空间并非空间单元的结束，而是显现相邻异质空间交互特性与相互间作用的开端，它与核心空间相对存在并可能随时间与尺度的变化而相互转化。边缘空间具有异质性、中介性、前沿性、公共性与关联性等空间特征，蕴涵源于异质空间之间内在关联的边缘效应。贯穿于城市的各层级边缘空间可将各种功能单元、空间、活动联为一体，为城市空间提供良好的接续场所，赋予城市空间多重涵义与广博包容能力，并使其具有满足人的多种需求的空间品质。

On the Fringe Space

The researches on city space is much more concerned with the space body itself than its fringe area. The fringe is not the end of the space but the start to represent the mutual features of neighboring areas. The fringe area and the core area may change their position oppositely as time or condition changes. The fringe space has such spatial features as heterogeneity, medium, edge, publication and correlation and it contains a certain fringe effect that comes from the multifunction of neighboring areas. The fringe links all the different levels of space together so it provides the city space good continuous site and helps the city form multi-space features that can meet people' s needs.