The paper aims to summarize the research context, direction and hotspots of street furniture at home and abroad, and infer the development trend according to the analysis results. Taking the street furniture-related journals retrieved in the CNKI and Web of Science databases as data sources, using CiteSpace software and traditional document analysis methods to sort out the research context and fields, citations, research hotspots and trend, and to compare the differences between domestic and foreign studies in the field of urban street furniture. The research shows that:the development of street furniture at home and abroad can be divided into three stages with NBC:starting stage, fluctuation stage and climbing stage; foreign research hotspots are concentrated in three aspects of ecological environment, public health and urban renewal. Low-cost sensors, rod-shaped street furniture detection and algorithm, and green infrastructure are the new research trends; the domestic researches of the street furniture mainly focuses on the regional culture, humanized research, and urban image. In recent years, higher design requirements for quality, refinement and standardization of street furniture have been proposed.