Creating Inclusive Communities through Balancing Social Mix: A Critical Relationship or Tenuous Link?

This paper explores some fundamental assumptions being linked by State Housing Authorities to 'social mix' strategies in contemporary Australian public housing estate regeneration policy. Six case-study estates, two each in New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland form the basis for the empirical analysis. The two major ideas emerging from South Australian and Queensland projects are: first that lowering concentrations of public housing and developing more mixed income communities offers a means to reconnect socially excluded public housing tenants to mainstream society; second that a balanced social mix is a prerequisite for the development of 'inclusive', 'sustainable' and 'cohesive' communities. However, in light of the empirical findings that strong cohesive communities already exist on some estates prior to regeneration commencing, there is no evidence that a balanced social mix is a necessary condition for building inclusive communities. Coupled with findings in the projects of inadvertent negative consequences of implementing social mix policies, the paper questions whether policy makers are over-emphasising the extent to which social mix assists regeneration.     

社区交往空间影响因素:深圳市熙园住宅小区实例

社区交往空间对社区和谐至关重要,通过对熙园住宅小区交往空间使用状况进行调查,发现社会、经济环境、空间设计、传统文化观念、公共政策等因素对社区交往有关键影响作用,阐明社区建设过程中应重视邻里交往,政府应建立相关机制激励设计师关注居民需求.     

论我国当代居住区景观环境的发展和演变

从研究国内外居住区空间发展沿革及相关理论出发,以深圳为例探讨我国改革开放20多年来居住区环境的发展,分为四个阶段:简易绿化型、实用庭园型、生态健康型、原创多元型。通过对每个阶段的产生背景、阶段特点和相关案例做了深入阐述,指出居住区环境景观的规划设计,应以项目立地条件和规划要求为基础,以先进的景观规划理论和方法为指导,注重对整体性的把握,和对居住区环境生态性以及细部设计的考虑,弘扬民族文化精神。     

红叶谷生态旅游区植被群落特征研究

以红叶谷为代表,采用生态学系统布点方法,对济南南部山区的野生植被进行了详细调查,按照不同坡度、坡向、海拔高度的植被类型的不同系统选择了40个样地,对样地内的各项生态因子进行了分析,统计出的各物种多度、频度、优势度、相对多度、相对频度、相对优势度和相对重要值揭示了群落的成分和结构,其生物多样性指数和均匀度指数反映了红叶谷植物群落的生态特征,以各样地的群落特征指标聚类分析将红叶谷风景区的植被分为沟谷杨树林、侧柏纯林、乔灌混交林、落叶灌丛带4种类型。为景区生态旅游研究和丰富济南的绿化材料提供了可靠依据。     

地方政府视角的社区发展规划

从地方政府的角度,社区发展规划在构建社会主义和谐社会的背景下应由地方各级政府主导,以城市总体规划或所在地的分区规划为依据,着重于建立社区服务等级体系,调整辖区,确定服务设施的具体位置和用地规模.     

Transition to a sustainable urban energy system from a long-term perspective: Case study in a Japanese business district

This paper investigates alternative prospects for an urban energy system from a long-term perspective in order to achieve a reduction in CO₂ emission by more than 50% of the current emission in the Japanese commercial sector. This will assist in making strategic choices with regard to the implementation of available technologies in order to create a substantial change. A simulation model based on the bottom-up approach – a fundamental part of the evaluation framework of technology implementation scenarios – provides insights into the changes required in all the components of urban energy systems from the equipment level to the entire building and systems level and finally to the neighborhood and city levels. This model is applied to the Yodoyabashi district, a central business district in Osaka, Japan, in order to predict the end-use energy consumption and CO₂ emission under various scenarios. This is based on different concepts of community energy management. The results of this case study suggest that we can achieve a reduction of 60–90% of the current CO₂ emission by the middle of the 21st century.     

Recombinant Landscapes in the American City

How are urban actors, such as landscape designers, community groups, developers and local politicians, actively restructuring their environments to meet the challenges of the American city in the new global context? Grahame Shane outlines the approaches to landscape that have been emerging since the mid-20th century and are set to recombine urban assemblages whether they are located in historic city centres, postindustrial waterfronts or suburban sprawl. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

社区安全环境的整体构筑

为了探讨城市住区安全环境的整体构筑问题,运用社会学、心理学等理论及方法分析居住行为安全性的影响因素,结合国外建筑师的理论措施,以及我国传统建筑布局上积累的经验,从社会手段、空间手段、技术手段3个方面,提出居住行为物质安全性的具体产生途径。