人居环境——新城市主义的本质及启示

Human Settlement Environment——The Essence and Edifications of New Urbanism

人居环境是人类生存和发展的基础,而中国当前城市建设面临许多非人性化的人居环境忧患。对20世纪下半叶美国的边缘城市主义和其后的新城市主义思想从理论上进行了对比和分析,表明了城市设计理念从科技理性向自然和人性的转变,阐述了新城市主义本质内涵是人居环境思想。启迪人们应从人本主义角度探讨城市建设,用人本思想来提升城市人居环境,保持人、自然和人居环境之间的和谐发展,城市环境才能走上真正健康之路,对城市开发区建设具有学术价值和深远的实践意义。

Human settlement environment is the basis of people existence and development, and currently Chinese urban construction is being faced with many problems on human settlement environment. Through contrasting the concepts of the American Edged Urbanism with the New Urbanism in the later half of the 20th century theoretically, this paper indicated the change in concept of urban design from the technological rationality to the nature and humanity. It expounds that the essence of New Urbanism is the idea of human settlement environment, and enlightens that people should promote urban construction and human settlement environment by way of humanism, and maintain harmonious development of human, nature and human settlement environment, thus the urban environment should walk up a correct way, and the idea has academic and extensive practical value for new development zones.