Abstract:During the process of Chinese cities’ transformation from being growth-led to regeneration-based, there has been a rising requirement for detailed urban design practice. This requirement needs urban design evolve from outcome-based technical tools to integrating process and outcome public policy. Detailed urban design as public policy aims at particular public issues, and is being conducted to improve the quality of urban management and city governance. It features being authoritative and dynamic and involving conf licts and compromises between multiple stakeholders on interests of space. The paper argues that in the current context of China’s urban transformation, there have been both potentials and constraints towards detailed urban design, and therefore further observations and researches are of necessity.

Abstract:One phenomenon in the rapid urbanization of our country is that the urban design practice and management are unequal, and the long-term extensive urban design management pattern brings many obstacles to the realization of urban design goals. Urban design is an important means of shaping urban space, and detailed management in urban design has become a hot topic, as well as an inevitable requirement for urban development. On the basis of analyzing and summarizing the experience on urban design management both domestic and abroad, this paper puts forward suggestions on detailed management in urban design from the aspect of problem perspective, technical tools, outcome indicators, content docking, system operation and legal protection.

Abstract:Facing the transformation of urban China, the original urban planning and management methods are no longer suitable for the needs of contemporary urban development. China has established a policy for promoting detailed urban management supported by urban design. Based on some best practices, this paper proposes a methodology for the detailed management of urban design, by means of plan-making system, process control, and postoccupation management. Taking Zhuhai as a case study, this article investigates its urban design practices, including its four-tier urban design plan system, process control with high standard and multi-angle, and multimode post-occupation management.

Abstract:Competition for urban planning schemes has become an important means to improve the quality of program preparation. This article firstly summarizes the problems and deficiencies of the urban planning competitions in the past. Then, based on the case of the international consultation on urban design for Coastal Zone in Bao’an, Shenzhen, it reviews and explains the model of the international consultation workshop, including the background, the preliminary work and process control of competition, etc., and summarizes the characteristics that are different from the traditional model, in order to provide references for the international consulting practices of urban design.

Abstract:Starting from the function of contemporary urban design and present overload situation of urban space, this paper puts forward the meaning and characteristics of detailed urban design, and sets up an approach, and then applies these research results in detailed urban design projects.

Abstract:With two case studies in Hamburg, IBA Wilhelmsburg and Hafen-City project, this article has introduced the experiences from Hamburg, where the city government tries to balance the goals between economic growth and identity cultivation. Firstly, the author clarifies the contents of multiple participative urban design pattern and points out that western cities counter a series of challenges such as economic restructuring, diversification of social groups as well as globalization. The Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) has been developed as important instrument for urban development. With the political support from Hamburgs government, Wilhelmsburg has implemented different urban design projects to strengthen the communication among the local residents, so that the diversified policies could be carried out, such as identity cultivation and enhancement of environmental quality and sustainability. In contrast, Haden-City project focuses on the functional mix and related diversified development pattern in the redevelopment of former harbor area. Accordingly, the organizers of urban design team concentrates on the f lexible urban design principle and provide supports and advices for the diversified urban design in the development and construction process.

Abstract:In order to improve the operation efficiency of large cities and deal with traffic problems, the rapid development of rail transit in our country, especially the construction of subway transportation has entered a phase of rapid development. The gradual formation of metro lines network and the access nodes as city scarce resources will inevitably have a profound impact on the use of urban space. By analyzing the infl uence and existing problems of metro construction on urban spatial developments in Xi’an, this paper discusses the optimization of urban space environment and basic methods of urban design based on the subway construction.

Abstract:Green traffic planning and management is the basis of eco-city. In the mid 1990s, a series of eco-city projects was launched in Germany to explore a green, ecological and humane future city model. In this paper, firstly, differences on safety, land use and regulations of transport between China and Germany were compared. Then Riem Messestadt in Munich as a case was studied. Investigation of environmental transport planning includes public transport planning, no-motorized transport, and environmental management measures. Finally, green transport planning strategies in residential area of Messestadt Riem was summarized. We will learn the experiences to explore a new-type green city transformed from the closed-end community style, and promote an open and humanized urban residential area with sustainable mobility and healthy lifestyle.

Abstract:With the development and application of LAD and LBS, the digital footprint of the user has provided convenience for effectively displaying the trajectory of urban population flow and the spatio-temporal aggregation, which makes up for the shortcomings of traditional urban research and spatial planning. With the help of Baidu heat map and ArcGIS, this paper analyzes the temporal-spatial footprint of population flow of the central city of Wuhan City. The results showed that: the population agglomeration showed obvious fluctuation, but the fluctuation of working days was stronger than that of the rest days, and the activity track was highly consistent with the commuting rhythm, while the rest day was more stable. There is a phase difference between working days and rest days; the time of population flow and accumulation is earlier than the rest; the afternoon, the day of rest, the time of population flow and focus lag behind the working days. Whether on weekdays or on the day off, the concentration of the morning is low, and the concentration of people in the afternoon and evening is higher, and is much higher than that in the morning. In the spatial footprint, the working day and the rest day are gathering together the spatial position approximately same, the working day mainly is the commercial center, the transportation hub and the employment center, displays the very obvious work direction. Days off point to traditional shopping centre, large transportation hubs and emerging urban complexes.

Abstract:Based on the study of self-drive travel at home and abroad, this thesis analyzed self-driving tour service space organization from participants and component elements, constructing the self-drive travel service system from two aspects of space development pattern and construction content. Taking Guangyuan city as an example, it analyzed the self-driving travel resources and summed up the current situation of self-driving travel service space system. Then at the strategic level, it put forward the spatial development pattern in “one center, one ring, four corridors, sixteen battalion” and formed five main construction contents, including camp system, product system, traffic system, guidance system and security system at the practical level as the construction of urban self-drive travel service space system.

Abstract:In the area of ecological planning, the main methods are map-overlay ecological applicability zoning and “patch-corridor-matrix” model landscape ecological pattern construction. However, the ecological space constructed by the first method is limited in the undevelopable area, the species moving corridors which connects the patches using the second method are uncertain. The most lose of the two methods is the lack of understanding and predicting the ecological process. Pointing to the problem, through reviewing the development history of ecological theory to cognize “function, process and structure”, it attempts to expand the breadth and depth of the evolution process of ecological planning thinking and method. Also, it’s found that ecological planning method must translate from “zoning manage” to “structure control”, which will improve our country’s ecological planning theory and method.

Abstract:Urban forest park is a special forest park, it is not only the important ecological green space to maintain urban environment, but also has the function of urban parks. Hence, in the urban forest park landscape design, appropriate analysis methods should be used to balance the relationship between forest protection and recreation activities arrangement. Based on the analysis of characteristics and problems of the urban forest park, taking Zhaomu Mountain(Chongqing) forest park as an example, this paper seeks the relationship among natural environment, recreational activities and facilities management with the help of recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) scoring model and the urban forest park recreation opportunity spectrum evaluation. In addition, it also proposes the landscape design optimization strategy for different grades of recreation opportunity. The aim of this study is to explore the use of recreation opportunity spectrum (ROS) in urban forest park and its influence on landscape design.

Abstract:As the constant global warming, high temperature calamity in cities has affected human settlements and threatened human health. In order to summarize the research progress of how urban planning deals with the high temperature disasters, the paper searched related literatures based on China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Web of Science, and extracted by utilizing the method of Meta-analysis and the software of Citespace. The results show that urban high temperature disaster study originates from the urban heat island, and then developes in the aspect of climate change, and finally becomes a research on urban high temperature disasters. Under the two main themes of mitigation strategy and adaptive strategy, the main approaches in urban planning are land use, spatial structure, traffics, landscape and architecture, and each approach is divided into a number of strategies. There are obvious deficiencies in urban planning system, special planning and effectiveness evaluation. In theory, we should strengthen the construction of urban planning system and building evaluation systems. In practice, we should formulate the planning standards for dealing with high temperature disasters, and establish urban planning and design methods for climate-friendly cities, so as to provide references for the building of resilient cities.

Abstract:The integer scale method (Zhengshu Chifa in Chinese and Kansu Hashiraken Sei in Japanese) is a traditional architecture design method of traditional timber structure in the early period of East Asia. According to Shiqing Zhang, this method have been used in the existing biggiest timber structure remain of Chinese Tang Dynasty the main hall of the Fogongsi Temple and according to his research the restored length of the carpentry ruler of this building is about 29.6 cm long. This study analyzes the real measurements in the report of 2008 on this building from the perspective of the integer scale method and realizes that this building should have been designed and constructed with the carpentry ruler of the length of 31.46 cm, while there should have been another modulus of one third foot (a length unit in Tang Dynasty, also named Tangchi in Chinese) long. Further just because the height of Cai in this building is just about one Tangchi long the design scheme speculated by the authors be the result of both the Integer Scale Method and Caifen System. This study has penetrated into the details of technology of this building and is meaningful in both the understanding on the integer scale method and the research on the history of the scale in Chinese Tang Dynasty.

Abstract:Southern China landscape architecture originated in the Western Han Dynasty. After the 1950s, landscaping activities and research work in Southern China are growing, which is represented by Guangdong Province. Owing to the unique style and its own special system, Southern China landscape architecture becomes a regional representative landscape in China. This paper mainly studies academic research results of Southern China landscape architecture construction activities. Utilizing bibliometrics and computer technology to gather literature resources and make statistical analysis, the article studies the composition of research results, quantitative relationship between the research achievements in various fields and its change tendency, in order to explore hot issues of academic research in different periods and literature works with significant impact as well as discover the international research situation about Southern China landscape architecture, according to which, key points and trends of the industry development about the Southern China landscape architecture are summed up.

Abstract:The paper takes Hu Village in Jixi County, the traditional Chinese village as well as historical and cultural village of Anhui Province, as an example to discuss how to promote the protection of traditional villages as material and cultural heritages through the protection and inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage. Firstly, the paper analyzes physical spaces and intangible cultural heritage characteristics of the village. Secondly, it expounds the relationship between the activation of intangible cultural heritage and the protection and renewal of traditional villages, as well as the protection of the material space and intangible cultural heritage in the three levels of the government, enterprises and communities with existing problems. It proposes that different types of intangible cultural heritage should be combined to activate the physical and spatial development strategy of Hu Village. It finally extract suggestions for development strategies in the four aspects of integrating “human— village—heritage”, improving the inheritance system of village intangible cultural heritages, strengthening the connotation construction of the village centered on the concept of ecological museum and building a multi-party system with special industries as the medium.