scholarly journals Development trend and challenges of sustainable urban design in the digital age

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Jianguo Wang ◽  
Shi-Jie Cao ◽  
Chuck Wah Yu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Development Trend

scholarly journals Development trend of urban design in “digital age”: Pan-dimensionality and individual-ubiquity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianguo Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Ecological Rationality ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Space Forms ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Design Paradigm ◽  
Material Space

AbstractThe wave of “digital age” featuring digital information is coming. Digital technology is profoundly changing the societal development direction and evolution paths. It also has significant bearing on production modes, social interactions and lifestyles. With regard to urban design, a system of knowledge about the creation and adaptation of material space forms that integrate humanities, art, technology and materials, digital technology has provided it with a brand-new and revolutionary scientific impetus for its evolution. The result of this evolution is “digital urban design paradigm based on human-computer interaction”, i.e., the urban development is moving toward “pan-dimensionality” and “individual ubiquity”. The future of urban design will construct a new approach to urban research and engineering, which is more complex, capable of accommodating and compatible with multiple goals of “instrumental rationality” and “value rationality”. Such a new approach shall be led by the probabilistic theory of “gray scale thinking”, reflecting quaternary synergetic view of “scientific rationality, ecological rationality, cultural rationality and technical rationality” to realize the cognitive progress of “engineering for the benefit of mankind”.

scholarly journals Inhabiting the Shifting Edge: Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Sand Spit Communities in a Changing Climate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sibyl Ella May Bloomfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sand Spit

<p>This masters thesis uses urban design and landscape architecture to investigate the role of open spaces in increasing the adaptive capacity of New Zealand's sand spit communities in the face of climate related change. In order to respond to potential climate related change, the design of open spaces should acknowledge the crucial role that natural processes and ecosystems play in protecting coastal environments. Urban design and landscape architecture have the potential to encourage interaction at the interface of the social and ecological systems within these coastal communities. The design of public open space can encourage more sensitive development patterns and increase the communities' awareness of coastal processes. These spaces can become the focus of social capital building while ensuring the environment has the capacity to absorb potential climate related changes. This research focuses on three sand spit resort communities on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Through a series of design studies, a range of strategies are proposed and tested in response to the potential impacts of climate change and sea level rise. The exclusive and expensive coastal development trend is augmented to provide for all potential beach users. Diversification in both the users, and types of use, in these coastal areas will increase the social capital investment and awareness, further building the adaptive capacity of the spit system.</p>

scholarly journals Inhabiting the Shifting Edge: Increasing the Adaptive Capacity of Coastal Sand Spit Communities in a Changing Climate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sibyl Ella May Bloomfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sand Spit

<p>This masters thesis uses urban design and landscape architecture to investigate the role of open spaces in increasing the adaptive capacity of New Zealand's sand spit communities in the face of climate related change. In order to respond to potential climate related change, the design of open spaces should acknowledge the crucial role that natural processes and ecosystems play in protecting coastal environments. Urban design and landscape architecture have the potential to encourage interaction at the interface of the social and ecological systems within these coastal communities. The design of public open space can encourage more sensitive development patterns and increase the communities' awareness of coastal processes. These spaces can become the focus of social capital building while ensuring the environment has the capacity to absorb potential climate related changes. This research focuses on three sand spit resort communities on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. Through a series of design studies, a range of strategies are proposed and tested in response to the potential impacts of climate change and sea level rise. The exclusive and expensive coastal development trend is augmented to provide for all potential beach users. Diversification in both the users, and types of use, in these coastal areas will increase the social capital investment and awareness, further building the adaptive capacity of the spit system.</p>

The Research on Method of Regional Urban Design Oriented by Gene Recombination Concept

2012 ◽  
Vol 450-451 ◽  
pp. 1195-1200
Author(s):  
Yu Hui Xu ◽  
Ning Wei ◽  
Ying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Gene Recombination ◽  
Continuous Growth ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Material Space

Urban development is a process of continuous growth, in which historic context as a contact clues, has determined the regional expression of the city. Based on the regional context, taking regional city as research object, through analyzing the regional urban design theory development trend and practical problems, this paper tries to introduce the concepts of “gene recombination” into urban design of regional city, and takes the urban design of waterfront district of Yuanjiang county, Yunnan province for case study. It applies the method which expresses the context of “extraction-repair-integration” to reconstruct the regional context from three aspects of natural condition and physical space, social and cultural environment, economic and technical support. And it promotes integrating among regional natural, humanistic environment and material space form, and then achieves the goal of expression and continuation of cities with regional characteristics. At the same time, it would give a inspiring thinking way for the research on regional urban design.

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