Neighborhood Communication Design in the Smart City

Neighborhood communication is concerned not only by socialist, but also by architects and planners. In the smart city trend, digital technology has changed the way of our living; it can bring some new opportunity to solve the problem in neighborhood communication of the industrial age. Base on the analysis of the concept and problem of neighborhood communication, and the change of neighborhood communication in the smart city age, this article summarize three methods to improve the quality of neighborhood communication by architects and planners, including: reality-based network, digital communication space and the virtual community based on the mobile internet. The Concept of Neighborhood Communication Neighborhood communication can reflect the spirit of residents and the identity of belonging from their communities; it’s the representation of social values and social ethics. So how to improve the neighborhood communication is not only the task of social scientists, but also the task of architects and planners. In the modern society, most of the people's daily lives are conducted in the living area, so community is one of the basic social relations as home, work and study. The neighborhood relationship is the important part of social relation system. For example, in the living environment, the greatest demand for human is the mutual help of neighborhood, social communication and the return to nature. These requirements are essential for a civilized society human activities. People cannot exist as the isolation from in the social, in other words, if the social communication disappears, there is no longer has necessary to build a city. In the smart city age, digital technology has changed people's lifestyles and constitutes, and it will be a huge impact on the relationship of neighborhood communication. Study the essential change of this development, is the basis of urban design and community planning practice. The Problems of the Contemporary Neighborhood Communication The industrial development process in the mid-20th century has brought the rapid expansion of population and cities, density, resulting in residential development in the high-rise buildings. Blooming of the concrete forest brings the feelings of depression, loss of intimacy and lack of life breathe. The consequences of urban functional differentiation are the value reduction of neighborhood and the neighborhood communication. In fact, from the study of traditional neighborhood spatial structure, it can see that the residents of the neighborhood relations happen in the semi-private space development and develop in the semi-public space. Semi-private space and private space are interspersed with each other in the visual sense. For example, Shanghai, neighborhood space is actually an interspersed space to bring great impact on people’s communication. As the residential alley space has a strong centripetal force for each household. All the tenants are facing alley and make it become a public space. Also, because the alley is 5th International Conference on Advanced Engineering Materials and Technology (AEMT 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 520 enclosed together, it looks like a closed city within a city. Be separated out of the din in the crowded lane, with the strong sense of enclosure, sense of place and identity, the residents would seem to have entered the alley of the home sense. Because the room lighting of residential alley is often inadequate, the living condition is too crowded; the closed space within the appropriate spatial scales became ideal outdoor venues for residents. As a result, many family working originally belonging to private activities such as laundry, cooking, dining have been moved to the outdoor public space, and the alley lane road become a truly public living room. Although the cost of loss of family privacy, but it has also strengthened the alley houses had been intimate with the kind of family-like neighborhood. But in modern settlements, the separate of private space and public space is very clear. In such a state, it is not easy to from a space for good neighborhood communication. In urban planning, improvements are taking to repair the damage of neighborhood communication. But because of the modern settlement of their private space and public space is not completely connected, the way which architects tried to create for communication often become a ornament, the residents still didn’t have a media to improve the communication. As the inhabitants do not know each other as well, the distrust of various reasons is making the residents of the neighborhood being in an indifferent state. At the same time, social scientists were making efforts to create a community culture to solve these kinds of problems. However, there are still cultural communications drawbacks between people because of the time and distance. And for the regularity of modern work, residents can have time to participate in community cultural in weekends only; the effect is far worse than the traditional daily communication. But in the internet age, the change of communication channels and methods has brought a turning point for these phenomena; we can improve the quality of neighborhood communication by the digital way. The Changes of Neighborhood Communication in the Smart City In the past 20 years, it is the age of information explosion and revolution of network technology. As the industrial revolution, information revolution has brought new understanding in all aspects of society. The way of the industry concentrated formation in the city from nineteenth-century is over, in the 21st century, the world's industrial base on the large-scale decentralization, streamlining, automation and information technology. Smart city strengthens the communication between people and information with more choices. Telephone, mobile phone, TV, Internet, etc. are shortening the distance between people, the neighborhood communicate become more easily. In particular, the widespread use of the network make the space and time distance of the world is continual to be ignored. Every changes in the history were regarded the world to become smaller, and network is acute than ever. The information society is based on the basis of the network, the network has been closely linked with all aspects of daily life, and the network has touched every corner of society. Development of network technology will make people fear that too much reliance on computers will induce the interpersonal relationships to be more of apathy and alienation. Over-reliance on digital technology to make communication between people may confine them in the virtual world, but isolate them between the real lives around. Extension of the network continues will make the functional boundaries fuzzy between machines and human, and even become the semi-mechanical products on the network connection. The future of networks and artificial intelligence become the focus of controversy. But after some time of development, we found that the network does have its negative effects, but its positive effect is more obvious. Networks develop new channels and methods for people to improve the communication. It did not make the links weaken between people and people's natural desire. In contrast, based on the network, people have more ways to know the world and people around them, it make a more huge connection of society communication. People's hearts are more eager to the natural interaction between people, more reluctant to the face to face interaction even thought the digital way. The neighborhood communication for interaction between residents, the emotion of face to face information contacts is not substituted by the network, but encourage by the network. Study of