♦Mapping Supply-Demand of Riparian Ecosystem Service for Riparian Greenspace Planning on Multiple Spatial Scales
Author：Yu Qiao, Xing Zhong, Zhou Qingfeng, Song Yan
Edited by Li Min / Proofread by Tang Yan
Abstract：Riparian areas produce a variety of ecosystem service (ES) functions and play an important role in the coupled nature-human systems. Taking account of riparian ES in riparian greenspace planning framework and balancing the ecological and social aspects of ES can help to achieve the composite goals for urban-rural sustainability. However, there is still a lack of research on the integration thinking and quantification approach for riparian ES to support riparian greenspace planning and decision-making. This research mainly discusses the possible way of incorporating the ES into riparian greenspace planning and presents an integrated framework of the interaction between riparian ES and riparian greenspace planning, including evaluating riparian ES supply-demand budget to support multi-scales (region, urban, and street) riparian greenspace planning. Taking the Nanchuan District of Chongqing in China as a case study, we aim to achieve the following three results: first, recognizing the relationship and building a link between riparian ES and riparian greenspace planning; second, establishing a multi-scale scoring system of two ES supply-demand indicators for mapping on three spatial scales; third, applying riparian ES supply-demand mapping into riparian greenspace planning from three aspects of balancing planning goals, multi-scale planning tasks, and planning strategies and policies.
Keywords：supply and demand; riparian ecosystem services; riparian greenspace planning; multiple spatial scales
♦How Urban Green Space Attracts the Elderly: A Preliminary Study on the Relationship Between External Environmental Characteristics and the Frequency of Use
Author：Yang Dongfeng, Wang Xiaoyue, Yue Yafei
Translated by Qian Fang / Proofread by Liang Sisi
Abstract：A high-grade green space environment will provide necessary environmental support to the outdoor activities of disadvantaged groups including the elderly and is thus helpful for promoting their physical activity level and life quality. This paper takes the urban area of Dalian City as an example and divides the external environmental characteristics of a green space into three aspects including the diversity degree of facilities, the richness level of street functions, and the mixing degree of land use. Based on the data of a survey on activities by elderly in green space, the paper conducts an in-depth study on the statistical correlation between the external environmental characteristics of green space and the frequency of use by the elderly. The study shows that diversified facility types around a green space are conducive to a rise in the frequency of use of this space by the elderly, out of which the effect of functional facilities such as school and food market is the most significant. In addition, being adjacent to streets full of daily life or being mixed with residential land use will increase the frequency of use of the green space by the elderly. This paper puts forward certain environmental upgrading strategies for green space from the perspective of external environmental characteristics in order to help build up green space that is use-friendly to the elderly.
Keywords：urban green space; attraction; the elderly; frequency of use; external environment
♦Market-Led Development Under the Government Regulation in Urban Renewal: New Thoughts in the Urban Renewal Planning of Shenzhen in the 13th Five-Year Plan Period
Author：Miao Chunsheng, Zou Bing, Zhang Yan
Translated by Li Caige / Proofread by Liu Jiayan
Abstract：An urban renewal mode of “government guidance and marketized operation” has been established in Shenzhen City according to the Measures for Urban Renewal in Shenzhen promulgated in 2009, which has formed a fully marketized renewal mode. However, from the development in the 12th Five-Year Plan period, it can be seen that a number of problems had emerged, such as an imbalanced renewal structure, overload of the maximum capacity, shortage of supporting facilities, and a lack of coordination, which had resulted in a low efficiency of the urban renewal. In view that little attention has been paid to planning coordination and public interests in the renewal process, some new thoughts, characterized by market-led and government-regulated balanced development, is proposed in the urban renewal planning of Shenzhen in the 13th Five-Year Plan period. It emphasizes that, while insisting on the principle of “market-led development,” the government should change its role from “active non-intervention” to “active regulation,” and adopt specific measures such as implementing renewal coordination planning, strengthening renewal zoning control, establishing early warning mechanisms, and improving the configuration standards for supporting facilities.
Keywords：urban renewal; market-led; government regulation; Shenzhen
♦Spatiotemporal Responses Between Urban Regeneration and Policy Change of Stock Industrial Land: A Case Study on the Downtown Area of Tianjin
Author：Zeng Peng, Li Jinxuan
Translated by Li Caige / Proofread by Mao Qizhi
Abstract：The regeneration of stock land has gradually occupied the mainstream of China’s urban development. In order to cope with the inherent complexity of land property rights and transaction costs in stock land regeneration, relevant urban policies need to play a necessary guiding role. Taking the downtown area of Tianjin as an example, this paper discusses the interaction between spatial regeneration and policy change of stock industrial land. Firstly, a spatial database is constructed through multi-party research to quantitatively describe the spatial and temporal evolution of the stock industrial land since 1995. Secondly, the relevant urban policies since 1979 are sorted out, and the characteristics of policy changes are evaluated and analyzed. Finally, through comparative studies, it is confirmed that the regeneration rate of stock industrial land is affected by policy change, and the speed of policy impact is subject to the policies’ inherent characteristics, namely, “guiding policy” or “regulating policy.”
Keywords：stock industrial land; urban regeneration; urban policy; spatiotemporal response
♦Residents’ Self-Build: Local Practice and Local Wisdom Beyond Planning – A Case Study on Renewal and Development in Hanyin Old City, Shaanxi Province
Author：Zhao Xu, Zhang Wenjia, Yin Jie
Translated by Liu Jinxin / Proofread by Liu Jiayan
Abstract：This paper focuses on the phenomenon of residents’ self-build structures in the old city of Hanyin County since the 1980s, and draws the following conclusions: firstly, regarding the local policies formed in the process of local practice beyond planning, i.e., “neighbors’ consent,” “cooperative building,” and “building setback at no charge;” secondly, that the legal interpretation of neighboring relations is the legal basis for the rationalization of the policy beyond planning; thirdly, the local government’s selective use of planning tools and its cooperation with residents reflects the local wisdom, which helps to promote urban renewal at a lower cost.
Keywords：residents’ self-build; beyond planning; local policy; urban renewal; Hanyin County
♦From Informal Renewal to Formal Renewal: Governance of Collectively Owned Industrial Land
Renewal Based on a Case Study of Guangzhou
Author：Yao Zhihao, Tian Li
Translated by Li Min / Proofread by Tang Yan
Abstract：In China there have been two models of stock land renewal: formal renewal and informal renewal, and there have been a wealth of studies on formal renewal. However, few studies have addressed informal renewal, as well as the governance logic behind the renewal model. Based on the analysis of policy documents, extensive interviews and a case study of Guangzhou, we explore the evolution, governance logic, consequence of renewal, and governance dilemmas of collectively owned industrial land renewal since 2000. Through redefining the land development rights of stock collectively owned land and reducing the transaction cost of land use change, informal renewal activities of collective industrial land have been legalized from top to bottom. Meanwhile, informal renewal meets local governments’ demand for rural industrialization transition. The empirical study of Panyu District in Guangzhou shows that owing to lacking policy resilience, ineffective planning control, and village collectives’dependence on the rental economy, collective industrial land renewal results in frequent interest conflicts and continuation of transfer and lease, presenting a real estate-oriented feature. Therefore, the renewal policy should be innovated in terms of differentiated policy design, a balance of interests, and through improvement of the transfer and transaction mechanism, to strengthen informal renewal management.
Keywords：collectively owned industrial land; informal renewal; formal renewal; governance; Guangzhou
♦Improving Strategies Based on Problem Space Analysis in Line with Critical Thinking: Reflections on the Planning Theory Study in Contemporary China
Author：Wang Tianqi
Translated by Liu Jinxin / Proofread by Liu Jian
Abstract：In the age of algorithms, planning theory study has gradually deviated from its original purpose under the influence of information technology, resulting in the problems of dogmatic thinking and passive cognition. Based on the concept of problem space, this paper tries to sort out the main procedure of theoretical planning studies and trace the roots of the above problems through the suspicion and introspection of criticism. In line with the philosophical speculations on the primacy of cognition and the primacy of ethics from the perspectives of epistemology and ideology, it discusses the cores and the values of planning theory study and concludes that humanistic philosophy, utilitarianism, arithmetic operation, and professional context would reorient planning theory study back to its original track.
Keywords：planning theory; problem space; critical thinking
♦Modern Significance of Chinese Urban Planning Traditions
Author：Wang Shusheng
Translated by Qian Fang / Proofread by Liang Sisi
Abstract：China has an outstanding urban planning tradition, which lays down the historical foundation for a theoretical planning system with Chinese characteristics. Thus, revealing the significance of the Chinese urban planning tradition in a modern context becomes the key link. Based on the historical experience of Chinese urban planning, this paper attempts to reveal the significance of traditional Chinese urban planning in a modern context from four aspects: urban planning integrated with the natural landscape, urban humanistic and cultural space planning, urban heritage conservation and culture inheritance, and urban planning during an economically prosperous period. Traditional Chinese urban planning emphasizes the integration between city and natural landscape and is good at setting up a baseline of urban order based on the ingenuity of landscape. Moreover, Chinese urban planning focuses on the design of humanistic and cultural space structures as well as the role of urban planning in the cohesion of “the will of the people,” inspiration of cultural pursuit, and historical spirit inheritance. Besides, Chinese planning tradition pays attention to the transformation of urban space through economic development and emphasizes the fundamental principle that new space should adhere to the original spatial order.
Keywords：planning traditions; Chinese wisdom; humanistic and cultural space structure; modern significance; indigenous planning
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