Abstract
This paper intends to clarify the spatial principles related to the life style in the Chinese urban housing. The standpoint of view through this analysis is related to the spatial construction and the living patterns which are organized by public and private actions. The spatial construction of urban housing after the revolution tended to extend the public space closed to the entrance, which called as "Entrance hall" and "Ting". The spatial hierarchy which is social and family order seen in a traditional house is maintained at the plan of the modern houses. Especially, when the order of the social hierarchy is seen distinctly at the plan, as if the spatial axis from entrance to bedroom through living room is straight, the actions in the life from public to private behavior are organized distinctly along the spatial axis.
