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Den-City: Revitalize Former Industrial Riverbank In Shanghai
No full textSince the economic reform in 1978, Shanghai has experienced rapid growth and development. In the past three decades, Shanghai is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Today, the Central Government had issued, "Shanghai will not expand itself," according to Shanghai Masterplan 2017-2035. So, China's urban development is facing a turning point, from low-quality expansion to focus on the quality of urban development and the efficient use of land. As the Shanghai Huangpu River becomes increasingly dense and will continue to develop, our urban designers must rethink the quality of the space created during the densification process. We need to consider how to make our urban environment more livable, promote a walking experience and a more active lifestyle. Therefore, the author hopes to use density as a starting point to explore the relationship between density and urban quality. The author focuses on three main concepts of quality: Mixed-use, Connectivity, and Identity. Furthermore, based on density typology to understand the riverfront urban environment and deliver quality from multi-scale design.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanis
Spatial-structural qualities of mixed-use main streets: two case studies from the Amsterdam metropolitan
No full textStreets are where the needs and values of different users and activities come together. Main streets in the Netherlands were either planned in major urban expansions or developed over time in the shape of ribbons upon dykes—‘long lines’ of continuously active streets. This chapter presents two cases from the Amsterdam metropolitan region: vanWoustraat-Rijnstraat, a main street planned as part of an urban expansion, and Westzijde, a main street that developed over time as part of a long line. While vanWoustraat-Rijnstraat is tightly organised and coherent in both appearance and function, Westzijde is characterised by a multitude of different buildings and functions.This study visualises the spatial-structural qualities that facilitate the evolving economic activities of these two streets. It explores the variation between them by morphological differentiation and determines several spatial characteristics that enable the mix: modularity of the urban plan, complementary ‘front’ and ‘back’ sides, structural coherence and territorial steps between the ‘front’ and ‘back’ sides to buildings, blocks and neighbourhoods.Urban Desig
The form and use of everyday streets
No full textEveryday streets facilitate various activities and movements, both indoors and outdoors. The second section of this book addresses the following question: What is the relationship between the urban form of everyday streets and the activities that occur on them?Urban Desig
Introduction to Everyday Streets
No full textEveryday streets are both the most used and the most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They constitute the inclusive backbone of urban life – the chief civic amenity – though they are challenged by optimisation processes. Everyday streets are as profuse, rich and complex as the people who use them; they are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact and the facades that are commonly viewed as their primary component but also urban blocks, interiors, depths...Urban Desig
Towards a Livable City for Elderlies: Designing new urban strategies to integrate neighborhood-based services systems with historical area fabric in Changsha, China.
No full textAgeing is a serious problem all around the world, making lots of countries under fiscal and political pressures (United Nations report, 2015), so does China. As country who has the biggest population of ageing, reaching 0.241 billion (National Bureau of Statistics of China, 2017), China faces the most severe conflicts between ageing society and transforming cities. However, the current services systems for elderlies is not sufficient enough for China's rapid growth of ageing group. The neighborhood services system, which takes up the biggest proportion of the existing genres of services systems for elderlies in China, depends on the quality of neighborhood. The level of integration of such services systems is also determined by the setup of the neighborhood. (Li Zhiming, 2016) This thesis aims at seeking a way to integrate the existing neighborhood services systems for elderlies in the historical area of first-tier cities in China. The proposal would turn the relationship between historical area and elderlies from mutually conflicting and exclusive to mutually beneficial. The new urban strategy would address to the existing problems of neighborhood-dependent services systems for elderlies, and the urban conflicts between historical area and elderlies' needs. The conceptual framework of the proposal would touch social, spatial, and governance aspects, based on the theories of environmental psychology, aged-friendly environments, aged-interacting environments, silver economy, participatory management, and participatory design. Changsha, a typical ageing, first-tier city in China, would be the example taken in this thesis for exploring the principles that can be used in other practices in a bottom-up way. There would be four stages—problem definition, problem description, solution proposals and reflection.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Citie
Sustainable Self / Livable Net: Balancing sustainability and livability in dense urban environments through strategies for the mitigation of the UHI effect
No full textSustainability and livability are two important dimensions of urban environments, that are however found to be in a constant imbalance. The achievement of a sustainable and livable city is hindered by the constraints of urban form, and density, in particular, has a crucial role in defining the performance of urban environments in terms of livability and sustainability. Research shows that higher levels of density tend to result in more sustainable and less livable environments, and vice versa. In contemporary research, the understanding of the reasons behind this issue represents an urgency. There is, however, an apparent gap in knowledge in the field.The manifestation of this imbalance can take multiple forms. Being it an eminently abstract issue, its reduction to a manageable and well-studied problem facilitates research and the exploration of possible solutions. In this respect, the Urban Heat Island effect is a phenomenon that represents the essence of the issue and that is closely linked to spatial factors. The manifestation of the UHI effect in Málaga (Spain) constitutes a concrete problem, especially in the context of temperature rises and an aging population. The heterogeneity of Málaga’s fabric, where different levels of density are present, can both explain the uneven manifestation of temperature in the city and define limitations and potentials regarding the exploration of solutions. From an analytical point of view, this work seeks to define a criteria for the characterization of different density environments and a way to understand how temperature relates to its form through different scales. From a design-oriented perspective, the goal is to define a systemic approach to the issue and explore the ways in which urban form shapes the spatial manifestation of the solutions. Ultimately, the introduction of physical measures would not only help to mitigate the UHI effect, but constitute a step towards the necessary balance between sustainability and livability.<br/
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