Research on the Humanistic Space of Haikou Qilou Cultural District from the Perspective of Sustainable Development

Abstract

As a tropical coastal commercial historic settlement, the Haikou Arcade Cultural District's humanistic space presents itself as a dynamic whole in which human behaviors and spatial forms mutually shape each other. This study extracts three constituent elements—cultural continuity, social interaction, and spatial adaptability—from the perspective of sustainable development, and constructs an integrated analytical framework with a vertical dimension of "behavior-form-meaning" and a horizontal dimension of short-term adjustable layer versus long-term stable layer. By analyzing the spatial imprints in historical superposition, the logic of association between street forms and humanistic expressions, and the multi-centered neighborhood interaction network, this study reveals its structural characteristics. The adaptive logic encompasses the "reversible and legible" path of functional reshaping, the dual-cycle self-sustaining mechanism of daily behaviors and spatial maintenance, and the balancing strategy of time-staggering and gradual trial. This study concludes that the resilience of the district's humanistic space stems from the bottom-up generative order and the clearly layered superposition structure.