Renewal of Old Community Public Space in Guangzhou Based on "Everyday Urbanism"

China's urban design in the past 20 years has mainly focused on the creation of urban space aesthetics and the construction of large-scale urban projects, but neglected that urban design should based on people's everyday life. As the main renewal object in the current era of stock optimization in China, the old community is inseparable from the top-down planning and construction of the city, but at the same time, there is also the role and embodiment of the user's self-awareness in the public space. The previous top-down design model based on material space planning has gradually shown its shortcomings. This design model often ignores the everyday life of ordinary people in a way of strong intervention. Therefore, it is very important and urgent to pay attention to the everyday life of people in the design process. In this situation, the open attention of everyday urbanism to the general public makes it regarded as an urban design method that considers the value of public space in multiple dimensions. This study attempts to analyze the characteristics and causes of residents' spontaneous behavior in the public space of old communities in Guangzhou based on the theory of everyday urbanism, so as to propose a relatively new design method for the renewal of old community public space in order to increase the attention of urban renewal to the everyday life of residents. This article first discusses the origin and development of Everyday Urbanism, and finds that the Everyday Urbanism is suitable for guiding the renewal of old community public space in China. And by comparing and analyzing the case of urban renewal dominated by one direction and the case combined by two directions, it proves the rationality of everyday urbanism theory in urban renewal in China. Then, through the investigation of Dexin Community, Gonghecun Community and Changleyuan community in Guangzhou, this article summarizes five kinds of spontaneous behaviors existing in the public space of old communities in Guangzhou, and puts forward five kinds of renewal design methods of old community public space according to spontaneous behaviors’ characteristics. Finally, these five types of renewal design methods are combined with the specific status quo of Changleyuan Community to solve the contradictions in the actual site. In the meanwhile, collecting the needs of the residents and their evaluation of the design to make sure that this design scheme can truly meet the needs of residents in their everyday lives.