Being one of the most important elements of urban public space, streets have contained rich social lives as well as the social and political connotations in Chinese cities with specific local characteristics, while most of them have been long neglected in the researches focusing on grand narrative and center-based perspectives. The paper retrospectively analyzed the evolution process of urban streets in China, dividing it into four critical periods. With the perspective of socio-spatial analysis, the unique formation mechanisms of Chinese urban streets are summarized in different contexts including power system, social domain and living space, thus to provide references for the exploration of street development mode and revival mechanism facing the multiple challenges of globalization, modernity as well as local social and culture traditions.%街道,作为城市公共空间的重要组成部分,承载着极富中国色彩的社会政治内涵和丰富的市民生活,却往往在宏大叙事和中心聚焦的研究视角中被忽视.文章回顾了中国城市街道的形成,并着重探讨其演变历程中的四个关键时期；进而借助社会空间分析视角,提出了街道作为权力再现、社会领域和生活空间等特色的形成机制；以求应对当前全球化和现代性的冲击,为探索本土社会文化影响下的街道模式和活力再造机制提供参考.
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