Traffic Sustainable Development Research on Historical Commercial Blocks

In the history of commercial blocks, in addition to carrying commercial function of the building, another important element is the street. The spatial layout of the street, reflects the concept of urban planning and construction technology level over a specific period of time; Street connection of historic buildings or historical city area, become important clues to understand urban commercial culture context. Street space with the formation of the square, the courtyard space, together constitute the public space of the commercial block. Street traffic sustainable development, historical style and features of historical business district, commercial vitality and have significant influence on quality of space. The Definition of Historic Blocks and Historical Commercial District The relics and historical block, it is to point to more concentrated, or can more fully reflect a certain historical period and the local ethnic characteristics of traditional features of the blocks. [1] The concept is first proposed in 1933, the international society for modern architecture in Athens by August in the Athens charter "of historic buildings and blocks shall be completed to save, not to destroy". And historical commercial district, is refers to from a particular historical period beginning with commercial nature and function of commercial forms as the main functions of the block, to support business activities on the basis of historic blocks, such as Beijing's qianmen street, Kuan&zhai alley and Jinli of Chengdu, etc. The characteristics of the history of commercial block is formed by a series of individual buildings on layout group, and spread along the street, be a certain area where reflect regional development, economic level, the carrier of folk customs, regional features, etc.[2] The Relationship between Historical Commercial Blocks and Street Traffic Historical commercial blocks’ traffic system, on the one hand, to satisfy the various groups in certain areas of travel activities and become the people entertainment and interchange activities of space; On the other hand also ensures the transportation of commercial goods. With the development of modern cities, historical commercial street originally has a history of commercial atmosphere and space is gradually replaced by urban development, the contradiction between history and modern has also been gradually create, the most prominent is the growing number of motor vehicles and historic business blocks limited traffic space form or contradiction between the traffic capacity. And historical commercial district as an important component of urban functional structure, need via the traffic system which is formed by street to connect the people and goods inside and outside. The contradiction between the limitation of the history and the demand of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017) Copyright © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 123