Research Paradigms of Built Environment Theory:Review and Prospect

A brief introduction of different paradigms such as wealth-based,user-based,flow-oriented and space-oriented paradigm is made,indicating that theory-building in the built environment has achieved considerable progress,but there is still big room for further development.A multi-dimension analysis framework is proposed,il-lustrating that it is the interpersonal relationships that is the heart of the matte,and that in order to establish a uni-fied theory system of the built environment,it is necessary to integrate different theory resources on one hand,and on the other hand,to break the task down into inch-pebbles according to specific time-and-space conditions.