Urban Time Change and Planning Response Under Digital Age
Abstract：
The wave of digitization is reshaping urban residents’ perceptual experience of daily life, pushing contemporary society step into an accelerated social context. Although existing studies on temporal-spatial behavior have deeply analyzed spatial phenomena and laws, the logic and spatial response behind the time changes have yet to be explored. This paper analyzes the accelerated trend of urban time in the digital age from the perspective of planning, combining interdisciplinary theories such as time-space sociology, and focusing on the spatial response. It is found that the popular application of digital technology makes time digitally signalized, drives time to be instantaneous, disordered, and fragmented, expands the value of time as a medium, transaction, and institution, and temporality becomes a key element in combining and defining space. Facing the intrinsic change of time and spatial response to digitization, this paper proposes a living circle planning strategy adapted to the digital age, which requires a shift in planning values to promote time-oriented spatial planning and platform-mediated virtual space governance to adapt to the needs of modern urbanization and digital development, and to shape a more poetic habitat.