Soundscape Design of Old Urban Residential Districts

This paper introduced the concept of soundscape, investigated sound environment of old urban residential districts, and explored soundscape elements and soundscape designs. In view of current sound environment features of old urban residential districts and different population groups' preferences for different sound elements, this paper proposed soundscape design methods to improve sound environment of old urban residential districts.     

Friendly Neighborhood Boundary Space Design

Residential area mode of China originates from "neighborhood unit" and "unit compound", they are isolated from the city and known as "islet" and "fragment". The isolation of residence from city breaks the urban structure, increases scale of blocks, and aggravates urban traffic and other problems. In view of this, it is imperative to explore the ways of designing "friendly neighborhood boundary spaces" between residential areas and the city, for example, by extending urban street spaces inward, opening boundary spaces of residential quarters to the city, constructing a boundary space network of residential areas harmoniously integrated into street life.     

地域性植物景观在城市道路中的设计与探索——以云南元谋县城特色规划研究为例

随着经济的发展、科技的飞跃,道路交通压力的增大,人们对道路植物景观的要求也日益重视。但是由于多种原因。在道路景观建设中,植物景观设计普遍缺少特色,更缺少地域性文化氛围。本文通过对云南元谋几条道路的现状调查分析,然后改进后的设计,从而探索地域性植物景观在实际规划中的应用及其思路、设计方法等,为今后在城市景观规划设计中提供一定的参考依据。     

Energy-saving Planning and Design of Urban Residential Buildings in Hanzhong Area

Energy-saving design of residential building is an important part of energy-saving architectural design. Planning and design of residential buildings in Hanzhong area should pay more attention to the building orientation, sunshine, summer ventilation and wind resistance in winter and so on, so as to create favorable conditions for energy-saving design of single buildings. The geographical location, climatic characteristics, residents living habits and indoor and outdoor thermal environment situation were analyzed in this paper, and combined with the existing problems of energy conservation in the planning and layout of residential buildings in Hanzhong area. Based on the investigation, this paper drew some conclusions to provide references for the energy-saving planning and design of urban residential buildings in the local area.     

Functional Features and Layouts of Yangzhou Residential Gardens in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China: A Case Study of Residential Gardens of Officials,Merchants and Literati

On the basis of analyzing socio-economic structures, social classes and their relations in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, this paper took residential gardens of three principal groups(officials, merchants and literati) for example, analyzed functional features and layouts of the gardens, explored artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of the local residential gardens, so as to provide references for the conservation and construction of historic and cultural cities, design and expression of modern urban livable spaces.     

日本都市农业发展研究综述

日本的都市农业是在日本经济高速增长和过快的城市化发展进程中产生的一种新型的区域农业形态。其属性从“过渡农业”到“计划保全农业”,日本都市农业走过了一段特殊的历程。在农地和住宅地交织在一起的当今日本,作为国土设计中不可缺少的一环,都市农业再次受到日本社会的重视。本文通过对有关文献的整理以达到深化对日本都市农业这一城市区域农业的认识,明确未来都市农业研究方向的目的。     

Exploration of Living Modes for Small-scale Community Endowment

The aging and the urban development bring a great challenge to the residential facilities of the elderly community. By exploring the layout and current situation of the elderly residential facilities in Chengdu City, this paper stressed the key points in the layout of various facilities at the macro scale. Through the deep investigation of residential districts, the paper explored the community endowment mode that is between the organization support and home-based care for the aged, and proposed 3 modes on the basis of "visiting, day care and short-stay". Considering the specific needs of the aged and the compound modes, compound community endowment mode was put forward as the future development direction of community endowment to contribute to the construction of the overall social endowment system.     

县域农村居民点适宜性评价——以陕西省陇县为例

为优化农村居民点布局,促进城乡协调发展,运用层次分析法对农村居民点适宜性进行评价。选取西北地区地貌类型多样、地形破碎复杂的陇县作为研究区,基于县域特点和农村居民点用地特征,从自然因素和社会经济因素两个方面确定评价指标。将高程、坡度、坡向、水源影响度作为自然要素评价指标,将道路通达度、城镇中心可达性、用地规模作为社会经济要素评价指标,在ArcGIS 10.3软件支持下,利用多层分析加权求和的方法,以20 m×20 m的栅格像元大小作为评价单元,对陇县农村居民点进行多因素综合评价。将用地适宜性划分为适宜、较适宜、基本适宜和不适宜4个等级,分别占用地总规模的13.88%、42.84%、34.48%、8.80%。结果表明,适宜农村居民点用地自然条件优越,交通便捷,距离城镇中心较近且用地规模大,适合设施建设需要;较适宜农村居民点用地分布广泛,地势略有起伏,交通方便,城镇中心可达性较高且具有一定的规模;基本适宜农村居民点用地自然条件略差,道路通达度一般,城镇中心可达性和用地规模有限制;不适宜农村居民点用地地形条件差,交通不便,距离城镇中心远且多为零碎地块,不利于居民点发展。研究结果为农村居民点用地选择提供了理论基础。     

VR-based Urban Landscape Artistic Design

"Digital City" has gradually emerged,promoting the digitalization of urban landscape design,and meanwhile,virtual reality (VR) technology allowing us to create and experience the virtual world has come into reality.The use of VR technology in the urban landscape design,and interactive 3D dynamic view,multi-source information fusion and system simulation of the entity behavior will be beneficial to generate the simulation environment of urban landscape design on the computer,and guide the scientific development of urban landscape design.On this basis,this article analyzed the connotation of VR technology and basic characteristics of urban landscape artistic design based on the overview of previous studies on the urban landscape design in multiple aspects,and further explored the application of key technology in the VR-based simulation of urban landscape artistic design,to provide the reference and idea for urban landscape design,and improve overall effect of urban landscape artistic design.     

Suitability and Construction of Self-Insulation Walls in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone of Southern Shaanxi

In this paper, the suitability and construction technology of self-insulation walls were studied under the specific climatic conditions and regional resources of Hanzhong and Ankang in the hot summer and cold winter zone of Southern Shaanxi. Through the calculation of heat transfer coefficient and thermal inertia index, combined with the specifications of the shale hollow brick and aerated concrete block of Hanzhong and Ankang in southern Shaanxi, the thermal performance and suitable thickness of the external wall using self-insulation materials that meet the Design Standard for Energy Efficiency of Residential Buildings(DBJ61-65-2011) in Shaanxi Province were obtained. The results showed that the self-insulation wall had technical suitability in the hot summer and cold winter zone. The research results provide not only a theoretical basis for the external wall insulation design of urban residential buildings in the hot summer and cold winter zone of southern Shaanxi, but also a reference for designers to carry out energy-saving design of external walls of residential buildings in other similar climate zones.     

城市开放空间水景设计之市民偏好研究

针对成都市城市开放空间中的水景设计问题,从市民的角度出发,采用问卷调查法和行为观察法相结合,调查不同性别、年龄、教育水平、职业的市民对社区公园、城市广场和居民区等3类城市开放空间中水景设计的偏好。结果表明,市民对水的审美特征、表现形式、运动方式、人水关系的偏好与其总体特征、游玩目的有直接关系,水的体验设计与文化主题性设计具有提升城市开放空间水景设计吸引力和增强市民归属感的作用。     

On Cultural Landscape Planning and Design of Xihan River Customs Line in Lixian County

This study explored the effective means of constructing characteristic urban cultural landscapes in the design of urban waterfront landscapes by combining with planning and design of Xihan River Customs Line and adhering to the theme of "cultural reproduction",tried to integrate cultural landscapes into ecological landscaping,so as to fully demonstrate signifi cance of urban cultural background for theoretic researches and practices of urban landscaping.     

Design of Public Communication Spaces in Urban Highrises:A Case Study of Xuzhou Hanbang Square Residential Area

Highrise residences with high plot ratio meet housing needs of urban residents, improve living conditions of residents, but also show many unreasonable problems in the design of public communication spaces with a result of interpersonal indifference and lack of sense of identity. This paper took Xuzhou Hanbang Square for example to explore strategies of improving public communication spaces in highrises from the perspectives of entrance lobby, open-floor ground design, ecological garage, and three-level property management. On the one hand, the paper tries to improve quality of residential environment and service quality of public facilities; on the other hand, to enhance sense of neighborhood and identity of residents, and change the current interpersonal indifference.     

Reconsideration of "Theory of Figure -Ground Relation"

In this paper,the basic feature of the theory of "figure-ground relation" is sought through preliminary introduction of the theory and contrastive analysis on spaces of traditional cities and current cities.At the same time,the authors point out the reality of misapprehension and misapplication of "figure-ground relation" to the theory and practice of current urban design.In conclusion,the adaptability of the theory of "figure-ground relation" to current urban design is preliminarily discussed by combining the basic feature of the theory with concrete cases.     

中国农村居民点研究进展

分析了农村居民点研究中主要存在的问题,提出了该领域未来的发展方向,以对农村居民点研究提供参考。研究方法：随着我国社会经济的快速发展,农村居民点发生了一系列变化,大量文献对这种变化进行了阐述,对目前的研究成果进行总结梳理。研究结果：根据农村居民点的研究进展情况,从农村居民点空间结构及其变化、农村居民点演变驱动力机制、城乡一体化过程中有关农村居民点问题、农村居民点土地整理及其他有关农村居民点的研究等五个方面系统地总结农村居民点的研究进展。.研究结论：农村居民点研究的理论体系还需完善,空间分布提取方法有待提高,农村居民点土地整理方法尚需整合。     

Jobs,Houses, and Trees: Changing Regional Structure,Local Land‐Use Patterns,and Forest Cover in Southern Indiana

Land‐use and ‐cover change is a topic of increasing concern as interest in forest and agricultural land preservation grows. Urban and residential land use is quickly replacing extractive land use in southern Indiana. The interaction between land quality and urban growth pressures is also causing secondary forest growth and forest clearing to occur jointly in a complex spatial pattern. It is argued that similar processes fuel the abandonment of agricultural land leading to private forest regrowth, changes in topography and land quality, and declining real farm product prices. However, the impact of urban growth and development on forests depends more strongly on changes in both the residential housing and labor markets. Using location quotient analysis of aggregate employment patterns, and the relationship between regional labor market changes, the extent of private forest cover was examined from 1967 to 1998. Then an econometric model of land‐use shares in forty southern Indiana counties was developed based on the net benefits to agriculture, forestland, and urban uses. To test the need to control explicitly for changes in residential demand and regional economic structure, a series of nested models was estimated. Some evidence was found that changing agricultural profitability is leading to private forest regrowth. It was also uncovered that the ratio of urban to forest land uses is better explained by incorporating measures of residential land value and industrial concentration than simply considering population density alone.     

On the Construction of Plant Landscape Form in Urban Landscape Architecture

Design of plant landscape form is a critical part of plant landscaping, and it is an important direction of modern researches on urban plant landscaping to promote the development of plant landscape via the interaction between landscape form design and other means. By elaborating five major influence factors of landscape plants, namely "flexibility", "art", "subject", "mode", and "artistic conception", this paper explored the application of construction thinking in the construction of urban plant landscape form, in order to provide theoretical basis for the development of urban plant landscape form.     

Residents' Collective Memory of Urban Street and Lane Spaces:A Case Study of the Confucius Temple Block in Nanjing City

Along with the rapid globalization and urbanization,primitive ecological environment and cultural life atmosphere of urban streets and lanes have degraded,memories of the city have been lost,and cities have shown the tendency of convergence and homogenization.Taking the Confucius Temple Block for example,this paper applied cognitive map,oral interview and GIS spatial statistics to study residents' col ective memories of urban street and lane spaces,and found that the locals' collective memories of streets and lanes in the Confucius Temple Block declined gradually in the sequence of "aura area" → "secondary aura area" → "buffer area" → "blind spot area",and "civilian" urban design concept was claimed as the major incentive of the decline.Streets and lanes as important components of urban public spaces have specific historical connotations and genius loci,and they deserve wide concern from the academic circle and the society for their function of protecting collective memories of residents.     

西南丘陵区农村居民点整理潜力测算及优先度评价

综合人均建设用地标准法、闲置宅基地抽样调查法、城镇体系规划标准方案法得到重庆市荣昌县2011—2020年农村居民点整理潜力值。构建指标评价体系,运用统计学中的因子分析法对全县21个行政单元农村居民点整理优先度进行评价,以评价分值为依据,将全县划分为优先整理区、重点整理区和一般整理区,并提出各区农村居民点整理的对策和建议。结果表明：荣昌县农村居民点整理潜力为3120.71 hm2,该测算结果融合了不同测算方法的优点,更加合理;有4个主成分对荣昌县农村居民点整理优先度具有显著影响,即经济可行性、整理潜力大小、整理基础条件和农户意愿。农村居民点整理潜力测算及优先度评价避免了农村居民点整理项目布设的盲目性和随意性,有利于农村居民点整理的时序安排,对西南丘陵区的农村居民点整理具有一定的指导意义。     

Urban Design Strategy Research Based on the Concept of Sponge City: A Case Study of Renbei District in Chengdu

Cities are currently confronted with many urban problems, such as water shortages, water quality pollution, floods, and the loss of habitats of aquatic organisms, and badly in need of a more comprehensive solution. In this context, the concept of "sponge city" is proposed. This paper, based on the theory of sponge city and low impact development, elaborated the origin, development, connotation, and construction method of "sponge city" concept. In this paper, the urban design scheme of Renbei District in Chengdu was taken for example to analyze the geographical environment and climate characteristics of Chengdu and explain the formation and verification of the scheme. It is considered that the "sponge city" is different from the traditional urban infrastructure. It is essentially an ecological approach. Its core is to build a cross-scale urban water ecological infrastructure to comprehensively solve the prominent water-related problems of urban and rural areas in China.