Strategies for solving urban street systems problems in developing city modenization of China

Urban street systems are the essential part of the city. It has many functions including traffic, street landscape, free-barrier route for accessible entrances, and road/street signs, etc. Urban street systems play an important ecological and landscape function in cities. Especially street landscape, free-barrier accessibilities and street signs have received increasing attention over the past decade as a valid option for establishing healthy sustainable urban modernization. Concern about urban services and facilities accessibilities and the long-term development of life of major urban areas is now a driving paradigm for council management in most China cities. Within this paradigm, problems of urban street systems were analyzed from three aspects including street landscape, free-barrier accessibilities and road/street signs system. Approach and measures of strategies for protecting and restoring the availability of a wide array of critical landscape resources in urban street systems were proposed..