中国城市设计——建于何处,建于何时,建设什么

Urban Design in China: Where to Build, When to Build, What to Build

在中国,城市设计正成为协助实现重要的政府新指令的一种方法。为使得这样的创新可行,中国需要3个方面的城市设计指令。首先,大尺度城市设计取决于什么地区允许新的城市化,同时注重自然环境保护、食品供应安全、气候变化管理。第二个方面是使原有产业和商业用地能够进行新建设,这些丧失经济活力用地的再利用可以减缓城市持续扩张的压力。第三方面是既有的官方城市设计规范应做适当的改变,以使得在建成环境和自然之间有着更好的关系,保护重要的历史保护地区,并创造适应当前生活方式的场所。

Urban design is emerging in China as a way to help implement important new government policy directives. For these innovations to be successful, China needs three sets of urban design directives. The largest-scale issue is where additional urbanization should be permitted, which relates to protection of the natural environment, preservation of food security, and management of climate change. The second urban design issue is the need to channel new development into urban land occupied by industrial and commercial uses that are no longer economic, thus reducing the pressures to continually expand cities. The third set of design issue concerns necessary changes in existing official development rule books to permit better relationships between the built and natural environments, preserve important historic districts, and create places that accommodate today＇s lifestyles.