城市滨水空间的绿化设计初探

城市空间的发展和活力,与其滨水景观空间上的生态环境、人性化设计及其艺术品位是密不可分的,因此,对其环境的改造是极其重要的。文章从城市滨水空间绿化设计的原则、应用、生态湿地等角度,论述滨水景观绿化设计的思想和方法,对滨水空间的绿化设计进行探索。     

城市护岸景观设计初探

以构建良好的护岸景观为出发点,对护岸的特点、类型、规模进行简述,分析比较不同护岸的特点,归纳总结护岸的设计原则和意义,为研究与实际施工提供参考。从景观设计的角度,探究城市护岸景观形式,形成功能多元化、景观优美化、生态多样化的可持续发展的城市护岸景观。     

城市园林绿化中存在的问题及对策探析

根据目前国内城市绿化植物选择和应用存在的问题,提出了城市园林绿化中存在的问题,探讨了选择和配置植物对发展城市绿化的作用以及对策。     

城市绿地减灾功能及防灾植物选择

在城市综合防灾减灾体系中,城市绿地占有十分重要的位置。城市绿地是城市规划和建设中的重要组成部分,它不仅具有美化城市环境、净化空气、平衡城市生态系统、为城市居民提供休憩游乐场所等作用,同时,还具有防震、防火、防洪、减轻灾害的功能。详细分析城市绿地在城市综合防灾减灾中的作用,并介绍城市防灾减灾植物的选择。     

低碳时代城市景观设计探讨

伴随着"低碳时代"的到来,城市景观设计也应该紧跟"低碳"理念步伐。在回顾了与"低碳"相关联的被动式景观设计、生态景观设计和经济节约型景观设计概念的基础上,从开源、节流、循环三方面分析了城市景观设计中应当如何做到"低碳",同时指出在设计中将"低碳"理念带入生活,才能真正实现可持续发展的最终目标。     

Urban residents value multi-functional urban greenspaces

Urban greenspaces are multifunctional spaces, providing services to people and biodiversity. With space in urban areas being limited creation and maintenance of urban greenspaces relies on understanding the preferences of urban residents for their characteristics. Such preferences are expected to vary with current availability, and the availability of alternatives to greenspaces such as gardens or gyms. We carried out a nationwide discrete choice experiment with Scottish urban residents to estimate values associated with greenspace attributes of: recreational features; plants and natural features; trees; accessibility; time to walk from home and size, to test the hypotheses that: (i) people are willing to pay to maintain greenspace, (ii) people have willingness to pay for greenspaces with multiple functions, including features for direct use (e.g. play equipment) and biodiversity (e.g. wildflowers), (iii) willingness to pay for individual greenspace will vary according to socioeconomic characteristics and (iv) vary with the amount of greenspace or substitute facilities available. We find a positive willingness to pay to maintain greenspace in general, and higher willingness to pay for larger greenspaces closer to home, which are multifunctional and contain both direct use features (e.g. children’s play park) and biodiversity features. Although we find significant heterogeneity in willingness to pay for maintaining greenspace, this is not well explained by either socioeconomic characteristics or the availability of substitute facilities. Our results have relevance for urban natural capital accounting, and demonstrate to urban planners the importance of the design and maintenance of multi-functional greenspaces for urban populations and would benefit from future research that further explores heterogeneity, including perceptions of greenspace access and substitutes, and greenspace quality.     

城市垃圾填埋场生态设计

近年来我国城市规模迅速扩张,许多过去建在郊野的城市垃圾填埋场被纳入城市版图之中,如何消除垃圾场对城市的负面影响成为各大城市普遍面临又亟待解决的问题。现以聊城青螺山郊野公园为例,探讨景观化途径的生态设计,即以最小的资源消耗创作出一个充满文化内涵、风景秀美的生态公园。以期对国内垃圾场改造为公园提供一定的借鉴意义。     

浅谈城市景观设计中的空间尺度

景观设计在我国起步较晚,专业人才匮乏,随着近10年中国改革开放的制度愈趋成熟及城市化建设速度的快速发展,大量海外人才将涌入中国这一巨大的新兴市场。同时,中西文化不可避免的碰撞,不同国度或地区之景观设计师对景观元素空间尺度不协调运用将极大影响我国园林事业的长远发展。     

Reviewing eight years of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: Taking stock, looking ahead

Since its launch in 2002, the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (UFUG) has welcomed research from a range of disciplines and perspectives, with the aim of enlarging the body of knowledge on topics related to use, planning, design, values, and establishment of urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation. Here, we present a review of all scientific contributions published in the journal's first eight volumes (159 in all), and provide suggestions for improving the future content of UFUG. A framework for review was developed based on the journal's Aims and Scope, which set out the journal's ambitions related to, e.g. scientific diversity and international scope. The journal's achievements until now were assessed by analysing all scientific contributions for type of paper, type of green space, research theme, type of science, research method(s), and nationality of first author.Our review shows that the large majority of the contributions have been research papers. Regarding type of green space studied or considered, the overall green structure, woodland, as well as trees have been well covered, with parks having been studied much less. When looking at research themes, UFUG's envisaged variety of topics is evident. The physicality of green space, green space management, and the experience of green space have been given most attention, with less attention for valuation and governance aspects. Most UFUG contributions have been rooted in the social or natural sciences, with about one fifth of all papers involving more than one discipline, and the humanities being almost absent. Scientific diversity can also be seen from the wide range of research methods applied. The journal lives up to its international scope, with a large number of countries present. However, most first authors have been based in Europe and North America, with the USA and Scandinavia being particularly dominant.For the further development of the fields of urban forestry and urban greening, it is important that UFUG helps foster scientific debate and advancement. This will require greater focus on review papers, meta-studies, short communications, and on theoretical and methodological issues in general. Thematically, several relevant topics within urban forestry and urban greening, such as organisational aspects of green space management, could be given more attention. Also, normative issues such as the common understanding of ‘green’ as something inherently ‘good’ need to be addressed more critically.