Analysis of Six Guidelines for Street Planning and Design in Foreign Cities: How to Plan Pedestrian-friendly Street Open Space?

“How to build a pedestrian friendly urban street open space through street planning and design to improve the quality of residents’ life?” In this paper, the authors select corresponding contexts on “how to plan and design pedestrian friendly urban open space” from six foreign urban street planning guidelines. The contexts are extracted and reorganized following the Chinese guideline logic. In view of the demand of building high quality cities through improving the street environment for pedestrians, the paper puts forward to incorporate demand survey in planning regulations, classify and locate streets from the perspective of environmental characteristics, pay attention to regional characteristics and the methods of constructing environments of intensive ecological facilities, and improve the functional diversity and spatial compatibility of walkways.