In the era of rapid development of the city,creating space where people can stop to lead a slow life is one of the ways to improve the quality of life of people.The stay space in residential streets as a place for daily activities of modern people is slow space that is usually ignored.Modern people tend to have a relatively fixed choice of the stay space on the street.This study took East Guangchang Road in Nanchang for example to analyze the factors affecting people’s staying activity on the street,the type of stay space,and the existing problems,and put forward a few design suggestions.