Residents’ relationship with green infrastructure in Cosmo City,Johannesburg

Scholars have expressed concerns about environmental sustainability in low-income housing development in South Africa in terms of the poor households’ relationship with, access to and benefit from natural ecosystems and green spaces. Using a qualitative research approach – discourse-based methods (semi-structured interviews, focus group discussion and transect walks), this paper shows how low-income households in Cosmo City, Johannesburg (South Africa) benefit from green infrastructure at the domestic, neighbourhood and riparian scales. The central lesson from this case is that landscape/urban design, planning and management must recognise and respond to socio-economic and socio-ecological realities and dynamics inherent in the ways low-income households relate with green infrastructure.     

Systems,habitats or places: evaluating the potential role of landscape character assessment in operationalising the ecosystem approach

A key challenge for research and practice is to understand how the ecosystem approach can be rolled out in spatial planning, management and decision-making. Any framework used to apply the ecosystem approach needs to not only be environmentally coherent but also socially meaningful. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and case studies, this paper examines the potential role of one place-based approach, landscape character assessment, as a medium to ensure socio-ecological relevance in operationalising the ecosystem approach. Our findings show that although place-based approaches have value as frameworks for distilling the ecosystem approach into a manageable form, their ecological relevance is a subject of debate. However, the potential relationship between landscape character, function and ecosystem services presented a powerful pathway for operationalising the ecosystem approach. The ecosystem approach may, in turn, complement landscape character assessment by providing a framework for exploring the functional dimension of landscape condition.     

Assessing landscape preferences: a visual choice experiment in the agricultural region of Märkische Schweiz,Germany

Natural amenities and the aesthetic value of agricultural landscapes are important territorial assets for improving rural tourism and the quality of the living environment. To identify which characteristics shape the visual quality of a landscape, a stated-preference survey was conducted (N = 200) using photorealistic landscape visualisations of four different landscape attributes (point green elements, linear green elements, crop diversity and presence of livestock). We estimated respondents’ preferences for landscape attributes, examined the extent of agreement among respondents and identified socio-economic factors influencing their responses. Results revealed that point elements had the highest general preference. About 70% of respondents preferred diverse and highly structured landscapes, while about 30% of respondents had opposing preferences. Preferences were also found to be dependent on the individual’s sociocultural background, such as their level of education, gender or age. These results can help to improve the multi-objective targeting of policies by including an aesthetic value perspective.     

江南圩田的法与式：生态系统服务与空间形态增效

以江南圩田为研究对象,文章阐释在风景园林生态的语境下,以生态系统服务效能为"法",以空间形态为"式",有法有式,有律可循的观点。通过"水—绿—人"三者的关系,进行传统江南圩田原生空间形态的整体解读,剖析其间蕴含的8个维度的生态系统服务,反思当下圩田地区建设过程中的冲突与矛盾,进而探讨传统江南圩田生态智慧对当代圩田地区发展与规划实践给予的启示:"顺水而为"适度改造自然的理念;形成三生融合的整体人文生态系统;以及与水相协调的传统社会治理系统。     

重庆国泰艺术中心

在西部大开发的战略背景下,城乡建设迎来了新的契机,建筑师所背负的社会责任注定了为社会发展和人民群众的日常生产生活服务.建筑创作应更多地尊重城市现状,着眼城市未来发展,并深入挖掘文化内涵.以重庆国泰艺术中心为例,结合西部地区现状的发展模式和独特的地域特色,探讨了西部建筑设计中的一些感受与思考.     

A multi-objective model for seasonal personnel reassignment

The focus of this research was the development of a model to address the problem of reassigning summer construction workers to winter snow and ice removal teams in an efficient and cost-effective manner. The model is a multi-objective integer program that can generate the complete and precise trade-off curve between the objectives of minimizing total distance that the reassigned workforce must travel from their respective homes to one of many site locations, and minimizing the maximum distance that any one worker must travel. System constraints include demand requirements for workers at each site and the limited availability of state-owned vehicles that may be issued to workers assigned to remote sites. Details of the model structure and solution procedure are presented together with the results of an actual application.     

以文脉设计理念为主线的教学体系探索--城市设计与建筑设计教学课程的融合①

城乡建设快速推进的背景下,建筑与环境的关系问题被凸显,建筑学教育中基于城市视角的观念培养变得尤为必要。本文结合现状教学中城市设计和建筑设计课程相互独立设置所产生的问题,提出以文脉设计理念为主线将两者进行融合的教学新体系,使学生能够更加深刻地理解建筑与城市等环境的关系。新教学架构从价值观的树立、思维方式的调整、设计方法的加强和综合能力的培养等方面阐述了培养的重点,并对相应的教学方法实践进行了详细论述。     

论建筑设计中建筑文脉沿存

建筑设计中的文脉关注的是个体建筑与建筑群之间的关系,重视新老建筑在心理、视觉和环境上的沿存性和连续性。建筑物的设计的意义以及所具有的功能需要通过空间和时间上的文脉来实现,同时也起到了对文脉的协调作用。     

Urban environment thermal improvement by the bioclimatic simulation of a populated open urban space in Greece

Urban neighbourhoods and open spaces are strongly related to bioclimatic techniques and practices. The procedure of a bioclimatic study is presented by the use of simulation tools. Routes linking archaeological monuments in the Greek city of Arta are characterised of decreased human thermal comfort conditions during summer time. The employment of computational fluid dynamics has contributed to the understanding of what interventions should be made at the urban populated routes in order to succeed the defined environmental thermal-related targets. The proposed rehabilitation explains what the interventions would contribute to the improvement of the local environment.     

塔夫里与柯布西耶——关于建筑的现代性

本文试图勾勒威尼斯建筑学派的领导人物塔夫里如何透过柯布西耶的系列研究发现,塔夫里对人们习以为常的观念,提出了不同的诠释与批判,像乡愁、场所、涵构、技术、自然与乌托邦等概念。最后,塔夫里指出必须在城市的尺度上解决现代性的问题,权力的集中与公共部门的整合是必然的。这却与此刻时代的走向相龃龉。