“Stepping Stones” in Urban Greenways: Design Strategy of Roof Garden in Jiangbei New District, Nanjing, China

This paper focuses on the design strategy of roof gardens, analyzes the relationship between aerial greening from the overall shape of urban space, and discusses the greening spots effect of “stepping stones” in urban greenways. Taking the green corrider between the green space of the Yangtze River wetland and the green space of the Laoshan Mountain as a sample, the roof garden is analyzed as the impact of the stepping stones of the birds on the urban space shape control and height control. Afterwards, it researches the modular technology which can be adapted to building various types of roof gardens.

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Assessing the Impact of Street-View Greenery on Fear of Neighborhood Crime in Guangzhou, China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18010311 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 311

Author(s):

Fengrui Jing ◽

Lin Liu ◽

Suhong Zhou ◽

Jiangyu Song ◽

Linsen Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Factors ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Fear Of Crime ◽

Green Space ◽

Learning Approach ◽

Perceived Safety ◽

Street View ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Physical Incivilities

Previous literature has examined the relationship between the amount of green space and perceived safety in urban areas, but little is known about the effect of street-view neighborhood greenery on perceived neighborhood safety. Using a deep learning approach, we derived greenery from a massive set of street view images in central Guangzhou. We further tested the relationships and mechanisms between street-view greenery and fear of crime in the neighborhood. Results demonstrated that a higher level of neighborhood street-view greenery was associated with a lower fear of crime, and its relationship was mediated by perceived physical incivilities. While increasing street greenery of the micro-environment may reduce fear of crime, this paper also suggests that social factors should be considered when designing ameliorative programs.

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How Does Urban Green Space Impact Residents’ Mental Health: A Literature Review of Mediators

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph182211746 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (22) ◽

pp. 11746

Author(s):

Kaili Chen ◽

Tianzheng Zhang ◽

Fangyuan Liu ◽

Yingjie Zhang ◽

Yan Song

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Green Space ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Individual Characteristics ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Space Planning ◽

Urban Green ◽

And Gender ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

In recent years, the interest in the relationship between urban green space and residents’ mental health has gradually risen. A number of researchers have investigated the causal relationship and possible mediators between the two, although few have summarized these mediators. For this reason, we searched for relevant studies and filtered them by criteria and quality score, and analyzed the mediators and paths of the impact of urban green space on residents’ mental health. The mediators can be divided into environmental factors, outdoor activity, and social cohesion. From the perspective of heterogeneity, both individual characteristics (e.g., age and gender) and group characteristics (e.g., level of urban development and urban density) of residents are considered to be the cause of various mediating effects. Types of urban green space tend to affect residents’ mental health through different paths. Furthermore, this review discusses the details of each part under the influence paths. Finally, the policy implications for urban green space planning from three mediator levels are put forward based on an analysis of the situation in different countries.

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Putting Holl and Mackintosh in multi-perspective: the new building at the Glasgow School of Art

Architectural Research Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s135913551300033x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 24-36

Author(s):

Johnny Rodger

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Early Stage ◽

Design Strategy ◽

Open Letter ◽

The Public ◽

Human Figure ◽

Steven Holl ◽

The Relationship

The announcement that American architect Steven Holl had won the competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh's original (built 1897–1909), and the revelation of his plans to the public, provoked plenty of criticism about the possible relationship between the two buildings. Professor William Curtis first wrote on the topic in the Architects' Journal almost a year from the announcement, and his opinions on the relationship were forthright: ‘Rather than dialogue’, he argued, ‘there is a dumb lack of articulation in construction and material.’ A response came in the following issue of the AJ from David Porter, then Professor at the Mackintosh School of Architecture. He disagreed with Curtis, claiming that the new building will have ‘an extraordinary spatial richness’ and that ‘the original sketch Curtis saw in Glasgow last December has progressed very rapidly’, for it was but an early stage in ‘a design strategy driven forward with a mixture of poetics and ruthless pragmatics: qualities that are singularly appropriate in this context, and developed with artistry and skill’.Curtis subsequently wrote a further open letter to ‘the Governors, the Director, the Faculty, Students, Staff, Alumnae and Alumni’ of Glasgow School of Art, which was published in facsimile in the Architects' Journal on 3 March 2011:What a disappointment then to contemplate Steven Holl's proposed addition. It is horrendously out of scale, it dominates Mackintosh, it does not create a decent urban space, it fails to deal with the context near and far, it is clumsy in form and proportion, it lacks finesse in detail, has no relationship to the human figure, and is a stillborn diagram dressed up in Holl clichés such as ‘iceberg’ glass.

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Method for Designing Endogenous Runoff Sponge Green Space in the Riverside – A Case Study of the Green Space on the North bank of Yaojiang River in Ningbo

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123604020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 236 ◽

pp. 04020

Author(s):

Wang Xiayu ◽

Wu wei

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Green Space ◽

Design Method ◽

Design Strategy ◽

Landscape Design ◽

Green Spaces ◽

The North ◽

North Bank ◽

New Research

The riverside green space is an important ecologically sensitive area which connecting urban space and the river. The traditional landscape design method to create riverside green space can no longer meet the requirements of the concept of an ecological city. In recent years, the spongy city concept that has emerged in China which has provided new research ideas for the landscape design of riverside green spaces. Based on the characteristics of endogenous runoff type riverside green space, this paper takes the sponge system of the green space on the north bank of the Yaojiang River as the research object, analysed it’s design strategy, and summarizes the design process and method of the sponge system. The purpose is to provide a reference for the design of the sponge system of the endogenous runoff type riverside green space in the future.

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Discussion on Modern Urban High-rise Buildings in the Natural Space Design

World Construction ◽

10.18686/wc.v4i2.45 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Shaoqin Han

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Green Space ◽

High Rise ◽

High Rise Building ◽

Space Design ◽

Ecological Problems ◽

The Future ◽

Future Direction ◽

The Impact

This paper analyzes the environmental and ecological problems of modern urban high-rise building development of urban space caused by the impact of natural space designed for high-rise building in-depth discussion, and in the courtyard where the natural space as an example for further analysis, pointed out green space with good natural eco-building is becoming the future direction of development of high-rise buildings.

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The Impact of the Location on the Price Offered by Accommodation Establishments in Urban Areas

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201462061475 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 62 (6) ◽

pp. 1475-1485

Author(s):

Roman Švec ◽

Josef Navrátil ◽

Kamil Pícha

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Summer Season ◽

Spatial Clusters ◽

Type Of Land Use ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Town ◽

Intensive Search

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between the price of accommodation and the urban space and character of the place. The price and spatial connections (together with the quality of the provided services) become an important motive for clients when choosing a concrete accommodation establishment. As the competition is very difficult in the field of accommodation establishments and the supply multiply surpasses the demand, there is an intensive search for miscellaneous strategies of engaging in the competition. The built-up territory of the town České Budějovice was chosen as a model territory. The prices of the summer season 2012 have been entered into the analysis. The impact of the location was assessed on the level of the type of land-use. The distribution of the accommodation establishments in the studied is highly uneven, without any more significant tendency to the creation of the spatial clusters. It is fundamentally influenced especially by the distance of the historical center. A price map was formed identifying the zones with the above-average prices, as well as the zones with the highly below-average prices.

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Spatial Clustering of Dengue Fever Incidence and Its Association with Surrounding Greenness

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15091869 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 1869 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Chi-Chieh Huang ◽

Tuen Tam ◽

Yinq-Rong Chern ◽

Shih-Chun Lung ◽

Nai-Tzu Chen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Spatial Autocorrelation ◽

Dengue Fever ◽

Vegetation Index ◽

Green Space ◽

Hot Spot ◽

Southern Taiwan ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Green Land

With more than 58,000 cases reported by the country’s Centers for Disease Control, the dengue outbreaks from 2014 to 2015 seriously impacted the southern part of Taiwan. This study aims to assess the spatial autocorrelation of the dengue fever (DF) outbreak in southern Taiwan in 2014 and 2015, and to further understand the effects of green space (such as forests, farms, grass, and parks) allocation on DF. In this study, two different greenness indexes were used. The first green metric, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), was provided by the long-term NASA MODIS satellite NDVI database, which quantifies and represents the overall vegetation greenness. The latest 2013 land use survey GIS database completed by the National Land Surveying and Mapping Center was obtained to access another green metric, green land use in Taiwan. We first used Spearman’s rho to find out the relationship between DF and green space, and then three spatial autocorrelation methods, including Global Moran’s I, high/low clustering, and Hot Spot were employed to assess the spatial autocorrelation of DF outbreak. In considering the impact of social and environmental factors in DF, we used generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) to further clarify the relationship between different types of green land use and dengue cases. Results of spatial autocorrelation analysis showed a high aggregation of dengue epidemic in southern Taiwan, and the metropolitan areas were the main hotspots. Results of correlation analysis and GLMM showed a positive correlation between parks and dengue fever, and the other five green space metrics and land types revealed a negative association with DF. Our findings may be an important asset for improving surveillance and control interventions for dengue.

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A economia urbana e os artistas de rua: performance, mobilidades e conflitos em um espaço público turistificado

GeoTextos ◽

10.9771/geo.v17i1.44684 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

Author(s):

António Cláudio do Nascimento Silva ◽

Daniel Paiva

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Space ◽

Urban Economy ◽

The Public ◽

Sensory Experiences ◽

Historic Centre ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

Este artigo pretende refletir sobre a complexa relação entre os artistas de rua, as suas performances e o espaço urbano. Para esta reflexão, baseamo-nos num estudo desenvolvido na Baixa lisboeta, localizada no centro histórico da cidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Metodologicamente, o estudo implicou observação sombreada com recurso a caminhadas e à videografia entre 2016 e 2021, bem como um conjunto de 15 entrevistas realizadas a artistas de rua em 2018. Conceptualmente, o estudo recorre ao crescente corpo de bibliografia no âmbito da geografia sensorial e da etnomusicologia, nomeadamente em relação aos artistas de rua e às suas performances, e a sua intersecção com questões económicas, os aspetos da urbanidade, a influência do turismo e as experiências sensoriais. Os nossos resultados desvendam o processo de territorialização dos locais de performance na Baixa lisboeta, o impacto das performances artísticas no espaço público, e a relação dos artistas de rua com os agentes formais da economia urbana. Concluímos o artigo com uma breve reflexão sobre a importância do turismo para a expansão do busking.AbstractURBAN ECONOMY AND STREET ARTISTS: PERFORMANCE, MOBILITY, AND CONFLICT IN A TOURISTIFIED PUBLIC SPACEThis article reflects on the complex relationship between street artists, their performances and urban space. For this reflection, we draw upon a study conducted in the Baixa, located in the historic centre of the city of Lisbon, Portugal. Methodologically, the study involved shadowed observation, including walks and videography, which took place between 2016 and 2021, as well as a set of 15 interviews with street artists which were conducted in 2018. Conceptually, the study draws upon the growing body of works within the scope of sensory geography and ethnomusicology, namely regarding street artists and their performances, and their intersection with economic issues, aspects of urbanity, the influence of tourism and sensory experiences. Our results reveal the process of territorialization of performance sites in Lisbon’s Baixa, the impact of artistic performances in the public space, and the relationship of street artists with the formal agents of the urban economy. We conclude the article with a brief reflection on the significance of tourism for the expansion of busking.

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Study on the relationship between the restorative effect of urban green space and personal environmental preference ——A case study of the Longtan park in Taiyuan

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202123303056 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 233 ◽

pp. 03056

Author(s):

Xia Zhihao

Keyword(s):

Elderly People ◽

Green Space ◽

Design Strategy ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Chinese Version ◽

Urban Green ◽

Aged People ◽

Environmental Preference ◽

The Relationship

To improve the design strategy of urban green space and enhance the restorative effect of urban green space, this study took the Longtan Park in Taiyuan city as an example to test the relationship between the restorative effect and personal environmental preference based on eight perceived sensory dimensions in green space and restoration environment scale-Chinese version. The survey was conducted by questionnaire and interview. The results show that there is a positive correlation between the restorative effect of environment and personal environmental preference, while personal environmental preference is related to age characteristics. Children prefer rich in species and nature. The young prefer serene and refuge. Middle-aged people prefer nature and serene. Elderly people prefer social and prospect.

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