浅谈园林绿化工程的监理工作

阐述了园林绿化工程独有的特点,针对园林绿化工程监理存在的问题,提出了如何做好园林监理工作的几点对策,以使园林绿化工程监理在园林绿化工程建设中发挥更大的作用。     

景观生态学原理在产业园规划设计中的运用

针对探讨绿色科技园区规划的必要性,以郑州高新技术产业开发区的规划设计为例来探讨景观生态学原理在产业园规划设计中的应用,以期能对我国方兴未艾的产业园规划起到一点积极意义。     

工业园区规划浅谈

分析了园区交通特征及其与用地划分之间的关系,结合珠海市定家湾工业区二期的道路交通规划和用地划分特征,对工业园区规划中所涉及的路网结构、道路面积和道路网密度等各方面内容进行了分析和研究,以期为工业园区规划提出一些可行性方法。     

大丰市银杏湖公园的叙事解读

针对当前景观设计中普遍存在的设计弊端,大丰市银杏湖公园通过叙事性表达,在充分挖掘景观中所隐藏的人文精神、场所精神的基础上,对其进行内在逻辑关系、"形而上"的理念表达,从而使景观的表达更趋完整和丰富,同时达到形式、空间、意义的三位一体化。     

南山公园人工湖整治改造工程的思考

针对南山公园人工湖在使用过程中存在的安全隐患、渗漏明显、园林景观效果差等问题,提出了改造提升的设计理念与指导思想,详细介绍了改造提升的措施,同时也强调了人工湖改造中值得注意的问题,从而实现改造提升目标。     

Sport Stadia, Sporting Events and Urban Development: International Experience and the Ambitions of Durban

The paper considers the stadium construction and infrastructure projects underway for World Cup 2010. We ask whether and under which conditions hosting such an event (along with the new facilities and infrastructural development required) will have positive effects on urban development. By analysing the stadium project in Durban, the paper also presents evidence on whether such positive effects may be enhanced by the attempt to create an image effect by seeking outstanding architectural quality of the new stadia.

The Reverse Side of the Medal: About the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the Beautification of the N2 in Cape Town

This paper aims to show the reverse side of the (football) medal. The N2 gateway project in Cape Town is presented, by government and media, as a ‘flagship’ project of the new Breaking New Ground strategy, to fight the housing backlog of 400,000 houses in the city. But I want to argue that the fast-tracking of the project has to be understood as a beautification strategy to prepare the city for 2010. Massive slum eradication and the construction of ‘beautiful formal housing opportunities’ between the airport and the mother city are becoming a painful reminder of the forced removals under the apartheid regime.

Lifestyles and the city: connecting daily life to urbanity

Urban households are part of what makes a city a city: economically, because of their labour market participation and use of urban facilities; and socially, because of their participation in public life. In turn, these urban households profit from what the city has to offer. In this paper, a household typology is constructed according to type and extent of ‘urban connectedness’. Urban connectedness is not identified as people’s stated preference but rather as people’s revealed relationship with the urban society through their residential choices. Subsequently, the urban orientation of these household types is explored. Empirical data are obtained for the city of Amsterdam.     

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.     

城市之变——北京、上海、广州三城阅读杂记

本文通过阅读北京、上海、厂州三座历史名城近年来发生的故事阐述了当功利成为城市建设追求的唯一目标时就会带来城市形态的急剧变化这种城市之变会带来人类的文化危机。