Pedestrianization Strategies for Downtown Planners: Skywalks Versus Pedestrian Malls

Enhancing pedestrian activity is usually an important goal of downtown development plans. Two leading strategies for separating pedestrians from vehicular traffic are outdoor pedestrian malls and enclosed skywalk systems. Each strategy presents a different set of potential benefits and problems. This article compares pedestrian malls and skywalks in terms of their urban design, economic impacts, transportation and access, and contribution to downtown image. The article concludes with a series of questions that planners need to address before formulating recommendations for their downtown.     

城市开敞空间中使用者活动与期望研究--以上海城市中心区的广场与步行街为例

在2001～2002年为调查研究人们在城市开敞空间内的环境行为,每年的3～6月之间,笔者共访问了上海市中心区的4个广场与5条步行街,共有917人接受了调查并回答了问卷.文章介绍了这个研究中关于使用者活动期望与活动的研究结果.揭示在上海城市开敞空间中,人们有很强烈的休闲期望,其中放松心情、与同伴、家人相聚和观赏城市风光为最主要.空间中的活动也是丰富多样,活动内容与空间的性质、功能和设施有关.停留活动中主要是坐、休息以及观赏风景.而步行街活动存在着明显的三种取向.     

The Social Relations of the Planner

The city planner, in playing his role, engages in a social process which can be analyzed in terms of a planning role, a client role, and a community decision network—all interacting around a public agenda. In the conceptual framework presented here, the planner is viewed as having a primary relationship with his client group, whom he must first motivate. Then, together, the planner-client team must relate to the larger community network, which they attempt to move. Both sets of relationships are affected by role postures, situational factors, and environmental conditions. This analysis suggests that traditional notions of the planner's role are too narrowly focused on substantive methodologies which imply highly simplistic assumptions about the social setting for planning.     

培养城市复兴的专业人才——建筑规划师

本文回顾了跨专业教育的背景,探讨了其制约因素和条件;文章还反思了跨专业教育的开发、教学和获取认证的经验;同时介绍了学生的学习体会以及雇主对毕业生在实际工作中的看法.     

培养城市复兴的专业人才——建筑规划师

本文回顾了跨专业教育的背景，探讨了其制约因素和条件；文本还反思了跨专业教育的开发、教学和获取认证的经验同时介绍了学生的学习体会以及雇主对毕业生在实际工作中的看法。     

闹市区复杂环境条件下超深地下人行通道综合施工技术

上海鲁班路地下人行通道需在闹市区狭小的施工场地内进行多项施工,例如地下通道工作井、连接段地下连续墙围护和基坑开挖等,并需要在有密集管线的城市主干道下进行近距离的顶管施工.通过精心的组织施工、合理的布置场地、科学的顶管施工参数控制和信息化监测,在制定专项管线保护措施的基础上,最终确保了周围环境的安全,保证了施工顺利进行.     

天津老城厢——想象未来世界

于昔日的老城发源地构建新的城市核心，是对过往繁华的重现，也是在力图找寻天津市民的精神归宿，老城厢，不仅被定义为城市复兴的原点，新城市生活的标尺，更将会成为未来城市发展的新源头。     

闹市区中的私家宅院

项目名称:薛家新址项目地点:北京东四十一条建筑师:韩文强合作设计师:宋国超摄影师:吕云涛、李楠建成时间:2010年12月建筑面积:300平米     

闹市中的静谧

空间是有气质的。恰如不同的人,各有其不同的气质一样。这是一个小型酒店公共空间的室内设计,位于上海城市中心的一幢老建筑中。由于空间条件的限制,设计师进行了相应的调整,让这里     

Role Theory and the Local Planner

Abstract

This paper examines the role of the local planner in the light of the extensive sociological and psychological literature on role theory. To provide a specific focus, the paper highlights the participatory role of NSW local planners. The paper discusses the influence of (1) the formal organization, (2) the role set, and (3) the focal person.     

Landscape Visual Aesthetics Measurement,Assessment, and Improvement of Street Pedestrian Spaces in Mountainous Cities—Case Study on the Historic Downtown of Jinan,Shandong Province

Urban streets support citizens’ daily commuting and social and recreational activities. Streetscape is also a visual resource and an important part of urban landscape appearance. Serving as an important ecological base and natural components of urban spatial structure, mountains often determine a city’s spatial layout and landscape identity so as to promote mountaincity integration. The study focuses on the historic downtown of Jinan, a typical mountainous city, analyzes the landscape aesthetic visual characteristics of street pedestrian spaces, and measures their landscape visual aesthetic quality by using panoramic images; the research then evaluates the visibility of high-visual-aesthetic-quality urban mountainous landscape to urban streets; finally, based on the overall landscape visual aesthetic quality evaluation results of urban street pedestrian spaces, the paper proposes a series of optimization suggestions of the streets at different levels to improve the harmony with urban mountain landscapes. The study hopes to provide a reference for the creation of mountain–city-integrated urban landscapes, as well as the healthy and sustainable urban development.     

白云区城中村改造初探

城中村,这个城市化进程中产生的后遗症,不仅越来越成为城市的“痛点”,更成为社会关注的热点,城中村问题已经成为和谐社会发展之痛,必须正视并解决。     

市井丘谷

作品以其大胆的设想表达了本次设计竞赛的主题之一——＂意料之外＂,我们相信,这也是老一辈风景园林师对年轻一代风景园林人的期望。而＂情理之中＂永远是设计的基础,是对每个项目现状的充分考虑与严谨思考。     

The Politics of Design and Development in the Postmodern Downtown

As cities cope with new economic realities their downtown spaces are changing. Downtowns have become consumption–based places that are designed more like amusement parks for tourists than as urban places for residents. The increasing privatization of design and oversight of downtown spaces raises questions about democratic access and in whose interests public development policy is made. The case cities examined here suggest that cities are struggling to find ways to make their need for development success match their desire to make downtowns accessible. Despite citizen participation and political rhetoric about public access, cities make compromises. They are willing to give private control over formerly public space in exchange for a productive economic return. Such behavior produces a positive cultural reference but allows little room for diversity.