As an important part of a city,blocks are significant carriers of urban cultural information,just like museums.More and more attentions on historic district spaces with the development of cities,while these historic district spaces are ruining.The issue became hottest on the subject of urban planning.The historic district still goes out of cultivation under the protective methods,as implanting large business,moving in native populations.Without populations’ participation,the revival of historic district’s economy and society is impossible even though there are many ways of protection.Only the method which can adapt and satisfy the demands of the native populations is the key to contribute the historic district’s further recovery.Shuixi Lin historic district space structure is the mainly research in the text.The text analyses Shuixi Lin historic district’s architecture symbols and the spatial elements’ organizational logic and social relationships,and provides mass data bases by a lot of research and field surveying and mapping for the reconstruction of Shuixi Lin historic district viewed from the development of people.In the meantime,the text proposes the reconstruction should base on people and the economic recovery of shuixi Lin historic district should have clear the audience consumer groups as well as promote the cooperation of regional by take advantage of regional resourcesThis article is divided into three parts.The development process about the theory of the historical block protection and practice at home and abroad,and successful cases in different operated ways are mainly discussed in research background in the first part.This part lays a theory foundation for our countries developing historic district by summed up the experiences in the process in the meantime.The second part details Shuixi Lin historical district,explains its historical evolution and its substance culture thoughts,analyzes the space elements,and the relations with each others,and explains the difference of people’s living needs caused changes in spatial structure of Shuixi Lin historic district in the Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.This second part emphasizes the human development impetus to the development of Shuixi Lin historic district.The last part in the text based on the large number of research puts forward the planning about the recovery of Shuixi Lin historic district.This part explains the reason why it is not suitable for mass modern business under its regional position caused the difference on the consumption groups,also.It stresses that it should clear up the local historical and integrate the status,while making up with its historic cultural,and achieving the mutual coordinating development benefits in economic and social terms in the Chapter 4 and Chapter 5.