城市历史环境和传统风貌的保护

城市历史环境和传统风貌是历史城市保护要素的重要组成部分,在城市空间品质营造和城市形象提升中具有十分重要的作用。针对目前出现的城市传统风貌消失和城市特色危机的严重现实问题,分析和梳理了城市历史环境和传统风貌保护的历史由来,从风格延续、结构延续以及生活环境内涵与场所的延续等方面讨论和研究了城市历史环境和传统风貌保护的本质内涵。最后从实际操作层面,从城市文化的高度和城市规划的角度,就加强历史城市传统格局的整体保护、注重历史城市环境景观特色的保护、融入当代城市生活与城市发展以及通过精心的城市设计有机延续传统风貌等方面提出规划建议。     

地方城市设计的本土化特征体现——以陕西紫阳县为例

中国具有悠久的本土城市设计传统,这是构建中国特色现代城市设计体系的历史根基。文章以陕南安康市紫阳县为例,通过现场环境踏勘、文献挖掘研究,总结紫阳现状问题和城市特色,提炼紫阳城市历史空间格局和传统人居智慧,从大尺度山水环境和城市人文空间两方面入手,结合现代城市设计手法,探讨立足于紫阳的传统城市设计模式,实践中国本土城市设计的继承与创新。     

景德镇历史城区空间重塑实践——以景德镇建国瓷厂综合服务中心为例

景德镇以瓷业生产为中心,形成了独具特色的历史城市空间.但随着传统陶瓷产业转型和现代城市建设的发展,历史城市空间肌理逐渐发生转变,街区环境逐渐恶化.景德镇建国瓷厂综合服务中心项目作为历史城区空间的关键节点,以彰而不显、融入街区的姿态重塑历史城市空间横断面,以开放空间的塑造与复合功能的植入激活历史城区空间.     

城市历史空间延续中的介质协调方法研究

实现城市传统历史空间的有机延续应当从有效缓解新老建筑外部空间结构的矛盾冲突做起。本文从概念、种类、原理与布局方式及城市设计实施操作方面系统探讨了城市历史空间延续中介质协调的方法,希望为城市环境协调和历史空间的延续提供有益的参考和帮助。     

明清南昌城历史景观组织研究

城市历史景观是联合国教科文组织提出的一种景观整体性保护方法和理论框架。遵循城市历史景观理论框架,通过撷取清代《江城名迹记》和明清南昌方志的相关图版和文字意象,研究明清南昌历史名迹与环境基质的组织方式。通过空间句法研究明清南昌城街区空间和水系空间并存的认知结构,分析水系空间与城市空间的组织关系,解析城市历史景观的文化表达方式,提出城市历史景观组织在价值取向上与传统城市空间组织具有逻辑统一性,以期为城市历史环境研究提供新的思路。     

传统商业街空间形态研究

中国传统商业街有着悠久的历史,见证着城市的发展历程,是城市文化历史的重要表征,同时其尺度宜人的空间模式,也给人们留下了深刻的印象。本文以传统商业街的空间要素作为切入点,分析研究在不同的地域环境、建筑文化背景下传统商业街的空间形态特征,为更好地展现传统商业街区空间地域性提供一定的支持。     

基于湘潭城市码头文化保护的地域性表达

城市文化保存着城市记忆,记录着城市历史变迁的沧桑岁月。传统城市空间环境承载着湘潭特有的码头文化,保护老城区现存的历史街区及建筑风貌成为湘潭城市建设地域性延续的重要支撑。本文从全新的角度引入“点、线、面、体”的概念,对老城区传统空间形态四个组成部分——码头节点、街巷骨线、空间肌理、建筑形态进行了分析,为城市建设中的地域文化保护与传统更新工作的实施提供参考。     

南京城南评事街历史城区历史建筑的保护与复兴实践——以南捕厅历史文化街区保留建筑为例

保护与复兴是历史城区城市设计的首要前提,而城市环境是历史积淀的结果,应具有鲜明的历史延续性。多进穿堂式的平面布局形成的小空间格局、传统的街巷脉络是南京古城城市空间的精髓所在,是古城风貌重要的组成部分,其良好的尺度关系、清晰的街巷肌理和空间围合,在对于传统建筑的保护和复兴中需要着力传承。对于传统的建筑的保护,南京城南历史建筑的保护与复兴实践有许多成功的尝试。     

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城市空间环境是城市中由一定物质要素围合形成的公共活动空间。城市空间环境设计是城市设计的重要内容,是对城市环境形态三维空间所做的意象性创作。它的任务是将建筑物及其周围环境与人在其中活动的感受联系起来,并按照人的心理行为特点,创造出舒适、安全、方便和优美的物质空间环境。城市空间环境设计中体现的自然与人工、物质与精神、空间与时间、历史传统与现代生活等结合的特点,达     

传统商业街区空间形态研究

中国的传统商业街区有着悠久的历史,见证着城市的发展历程,是城市文化历史的重要表征,同时其独特的空间模式和宜人的尺度也给人们留下了深刻的印象。本文以传统商业街区的空间要素作为切入点,分析研究了不同地域环境和建筑文化背景下传统商业街区的空间形态特征。     

城市水系与江南地区城市特色的传承--以湖州市南浔区新中心区城市设计为例

本文主要以湖州市南浔区新中心区城市设计为例,探讨了在当今城市水系不断衰退和城市特色不断丧失的背景下城市水系与城市特色的关系以及如何在城市水系方面传承江南地区城市特色的对策措施。     

关注城市整体塑造特色环境--唐山市总体城市设计实践回顾

介绍了总体城市设计概念和理论提出的背景，结合唐山市总体城市设计实践案例，对总体城市设计实践进行了总结和回顾。     

Science, politics and image in Valencia: a review of urban discourse in the Spanish City

In the urban sphere, discourse is fundamental to the social and political construction of urban reality. The urban landscape is, in part, a result of those discourses. It is, as Richard Schein suggests, a discourse materialized. The production of these discourses throughout urban history both represented and constructed urban reality at any given time. For much of history, the written word was central to such discursive representations, literary formulations and even biological metaphors that sought to interpret the city both for local inhabitants and outsiders. Today, the photographic image has usurped the former dominance of the word. This article uses archival research to trace historical representations of Valencia, Spain, a European Mediterranean city with a strong medieval tradition. Beginning with a focus on the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century, when Valencia was economic ‘head’ of the Kingdom of Aragon, this paper will follow how the city developed in concert with evolving intellectual and political representations of it. In doing so, I highlight the important and enduring role of the organic metaphor as a device which framed intellectual and political discourse, and ultimately planning and governing strategies, into urbanism of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (as reflected in the writings of Patrick Geddes). Throughout Valencia’s history, urban discourse has availed itself of biological and medical metaphors, even metaphors drawn from the field of physics, in order to construct a generally agreed-upon image of the urban society at particular historical moment. Analysing the role of such metaphors in urban discourse is fundamental to any full understanding of development in the Mediterranean city, historical or contemporary.     

城市规划对城市发展作用的历史研究——以近代青岛为例

作为中国近代一个有代表意义的城市——青岛,在城市的形成和发展过程中,城市规划起到了积极的促进作用。研究显示,合理的城市规划是城市发展的前提,城市规划在城市发展的不同阶段所起的作用是不同的,具体表现在城市空间发展方向、城市空间形态演变、城市形象、城市经济活动乃至城市社会结构等方面。近代青岛不仅用事实证明城市规划与城市发展的关系,而且对认识城市发展规律、进行城市规划决策都有借鉴价值。     

Latent sprawl patterns and the spatial distribution of businesses in a southern European city

The relocation of businesses beyond the consolidated city is an important aspect of recent urbanization trends. With economic restructuring driven by suburbanization and counter-urbanization, Southern European metropolitan areas experienced distinct growth patterns compared with north-western Europe. The present study assesses the impact of recent changes in the spatial distribution of businesses on land-use structure, sprawl trends and land consumption in a Mediterranean urban region (Athens, Greece) with the aim to identify economic drivers of sprawl and to inform urban containment strategies. Businesses showed two distinct localization patterns: manufacture, publishing and transport companies, construction and hotels were concentrated in urban municipalities; real estate, finance, high-tech, telecommunication, mining and energy enterprises settled preferentially in suburban municipalities. Dispersed urban expansion mainly reflects the spatial relocation of economic activities with high returns on capital to cheaper land. High-tech enterprises and finance/real estate businesses dominated the economic structure of municipalities with sprawled settlements. Policies securing economic development and a land-saving spatial structure are increasingly required to work towards integrated measures promoting semi-compact metropolitan poles and containing deregulated urban expansion.     

Urban Myths: Exploring the Unsettling Nature of Aboriginal Presence in and through a Regional Australian Town

According to census data, Aboriginal Australians live predominantly in urban localities. Yet ‘urban Aboriginality’ has received limited attention in the Australian literature and continues to be generalised largely in terms of deficit and illegitimacy. Drawing on findings from recent research in Broome, Western Australia, this article explores how Aboriginal presence in and through a particular urban space disrupts overlain colonial boundaries regarding who and what constitutes ‘urban Aboriginality’. It argues that not only have ‘authenticity discourses’ had a marginalising and disciplining effect on Aboriginal spatial geographies, they also paint a distorted picture of the realities of Aboriginal lived experiences in and through urban spaces.     

Research on the Measurement of Urban Sprawl with a Multi-Factor Indicator in the Context of Rapid Urbanization in China

This paper attempts to create a multi-factor urban sprawl indicator containing population, economy, land use, and infrastructure by using statistical data, and empirically measures the urban sprawl level of 69 cities in China between 2000 to 2014. It then analyzes the results from regional and periodic perspectives, and divides urban sprawl into four types as well as discusses their characteristics. The main conclusions are:(1) the multi-factor indicator is applicable to measure China's current urban sprawl level;(2) urban sprawl of large and medium-sized cities is becoming serious, while this trend has been eased in recent years;(3) the urban sprawl level and trend of large and medium-sized cities obviously differ from each other in regional perspective;(4) different types of urban sprawl present different sprawl structural characteristics.     

From a top-down to a bottom-up urban discourse: (re) constructing the city in a family-inclusive way

This paper focuses on urban discourses as powerful instruments intertwined with the dialectic of inclusion and exclusion. First, three dominant contemporary urban discourses developed in the field of urban planning are scrutinized on their inclusiveness of families and daily family life. The attractive city, the creative city and the city as an emancipation machine are examples of urban discourses communicated top-down via reports, debates and media attention. It is argued that these three discourses do not address families as urban citizens nor the very notion of reproduction and its daily manifestation. The exclusionary character of contemporary urban discourses does not only result in a neglect of urban families, it also legitimates non-intervention when it comes to family issues. This conclusion activated the search for an alternative discourse as expanded in the second part of the paper. This alternative discourse is constructed from the bottom-up and is rooted in the day-to-day experiences of urban families themselves. It is a refined discourse, with interrelated geographical scales including the city as a whole, the neighbourhood, the street and the home. This is a city that integrates—as families themselves do—the different domains of life. The city is appreciated for its qualities of proximity, the neighbourhood for its ethnically mixed children’s domains, the street as an urban haven and the house as the place that accommodates private life for each member of the family. This alternative discourse is called the balanced city. The empirical basis is drawn from middle-class urban families in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.     

Urban design in the digital age: a literature review of telework and wired communities

To understand the future direction of urban design in the digital age, this paper reviews the relation between telework – as one aspect of telecommunication – and wired residential communities – as one type of new settlement. It begins with a brief review of cities and telecommunication, and focuses on teleworkers' characteristics in the literature that affect their urban preferences in wired residential communities. The paper addresses the fundamental lifestyle transformation caused by telecommunication technology through changing live/work arrangements to recognize the key design attributes that play different roles. It concludes with a new priority for urban design in the digital age where diversity goes beyond all other design attributes, and notes a negative emphasis on physical accessibility which could be compensated through telecommunication. This review of the literature opens discussion on the future direction of urban design based on teleworkers' lifestyle that needs to be corroborated in future empirical studies.     

Art as a new urban norm: Between normalization of the City through art and normalization of art through the City in Montreal and Johannesburg

In a context of increased urban competition, art and culture are often used by cities world-wide as tools to improve their image and make urban spaces attractive. In that process, art is – as we will argue – becoming a new urban norm, which is normalizing not only urban space and experience, but also art itself. By contributing to the pacification or securization of public spaces, art could encourage some behaviors or, on the contrary, discourage others. Reversely, this normative dimension of urban art could impact art itself, especially by redefining the limit between artistic forms that are either inclusive or exclusive, dominant or subversive. Through examples found during PhD fieldwork in Montreal and Johannesburg, we will demonstrate that this normalization of the city through art and of art through the city takes place in various urban contexts, that it questions the distinction between Northern and Southern cities, and the definition of a (global) city itself.