mid-1990s since China city planners era, as cities increasingly fiery movement. However, contrary to their ideals, planning contacts, the city has become more satisfactory appearance. When we looked around, as with the production of a pipeline project as a model for all Metro looks extremely similar to their own historical personality vagrant straight.
Why the city when we do something right when the city's charm will be missing? Those Disenchantment or pale or crazy city faces, who decides? Can save?
Many urban planning is a charm enemy. More often, the planning was brought to 1,000 the embarrassment of a City
Wudaokou Haidian District in Beijing, with CityRail into QIAN Street block intersections, Fu Gang of the study. In this corner of the city, Gang Fu seemed "to see 100 years ago in New York, confusion flourishing in the disorder, primitive accumulation of strife struggling for the survival and development of Dubai cluster can to achieve the dream of the various divisions and hidden desire for the outbreak."
Year, coincidentally, visiting professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the United States registered architects Gang Fu, and his wife Fei Jing, an associate professor at Tsinghua University School of Architecture Insects regarded themselves on the new theory of urban planning target in Wudaokou.
Past 20 years, Wudaokou plays hot rock, with a population distribution, fashion apparel distribution outpost, the famous yellow den, Kazakhstan HAN Sheng, punk source, and a series of roles. And now, and the Gang Fu Rong them, Wudaokou value on the same point, namely, it is neither rare Beijing laps in a large courtyard units, I can assure the Town Planning overhaul before, a small sparrow suitable places in semi-urban areas, distribution of a natural growth of the wild Man flavor.
"This is a significantly with the diversity and complexity of the ecological village," Rong explained Wudaokou attract his reasons, "It can be seen as a representative sample of urban life." In Kunming view, the diversity and complexity of this in the United States each provide one molecule, the comfort and care, is the charm of the urban space, and now the Wudaokou, are losing this charm.
Used in Hong Kong?
In "Newsweek" and Sina.com joint "your city ideal" in the online survey, 16,877 people, 29.46% of people most want to live in cities with the quality of construction is "beautiful appearance, the sense of art" and " convenience comfortable "is ranked in the following second. "You want to live in the historic city age" one, 38.38% of people living in the historic city hope that the age of 200 years or more. Once they left town, the majority said, except for economic factors, most could not take the point is "the lack of change in life."
According to the China Internet
15th report issued by the data, 69% of Internet users are aged below 35 years of age, visible, rich and varied, historical connotation and aesthetic taste City "charm", has become a present value of the ideal young urban preference.
On public space may be provided by the United States, comfort and care, people are always pinning hopes on the planning. However, the reality of a taunt to the people, most of the so-called planning is becoming a damaging. One look in all directions, "planning" Wherever he went, the city lost the charm of the original. "Planning is a city charm of the enemy." Speeds, Xiushui market, Sanlitun Street South, half of the Gui Street, Beijing "was planning to destroy" the charm of nodes, Rong said, can speak on a string.
Mid-April, the non-government environmental protection organization "Friends" founder of the Chinese construction ancestors Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, son of Age in Hong Kong to attend academic activities, he said the Beijing city landscape may have become a "secondary" the worrying.
Recently, "China Newsweek," I confirm Liang, Liang explained, "Hong Kong secondary," said he is from some foreigners in Beijing to hear, to present them will feel sad. "Beijing is so deep and long-standing historical context, but did not make good use of, now fall to be called 'secondary Hong Kong', this is what the Ho As this ah!"
Beijing city outlook, as advocates are really worried, "even if Hong Kong does not?" The number of urban domestic scholars have said it, no matter where on the one hand, Beijing and Hong Kong are not comparable. Interviewed in the Age, the feelings expressed understanding at all for not.
Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute of Yin Zhi that, in urban planning, a failure to mention the typical, it is the most notorious - the high-density buildings, mainly due to narrow, and in planning and management, and even many of Hong Kong in reference place. Ching is right for Hong Kong to enjoy a city temperament and, in her view, in all Chinese cities, Hong Kong is a rare free development of cities. "In particular about age rank, grade demarcation of China, Hong Kong is a different number, it's unique temperament created it with the urban culture of human nature."
However, beyond doubt, not only Beijing, many of China's cities, is in a period by the impact of this period in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. "Mr Leung said this evening for a decade." Rong said, "Hong Kong model, interesting, by around 1995, has been city planners have abandoned."
Although some domestic
geographical conditions similar to Hong Kong and the cities have been deliberately copy the features, but wrong. Fee Ching said: "Even if the entire city which Victoria Bay and Mid-levels have been totally cloning again, it can not become Hong Kong. Because it lacks shape Hong Kong's free spirit. "
A 1000 City
The mid-1990s, China entered the city speed development period, as of 2002, Chinese cities increased by 475 per seat in the planned population above 420,000. But this time, coincides with the world into the information age, the modern urban world that the Chinese people are bare eyes. In Hong Kong, Chinese people have integrated the rest of the world the impression that the many fragments gradually draw the standards of the modern city like: high-rise, high-density and large squares, broad avenues.
Shanghai in the past decade the number of new skyscrapers, than the entire west coast of the United States all more than the sum of skyscrapers, high-rise buildings are increasing in Shanghai ground. In the northwest city of a certain level, the whole city was only a dozen of the high-rise, city leaders believe that the lack of modern urban temperament, ordered local telecommunications companies to build their own Zhigongqishelou 22 layers.
Square is the city's image in the West typical of ancient Greece when the space is public exchanges, such as gradually taking shape after several centuries of Venice basilica known as "Europe's most beautiful living room." China city leaders go abroad to see these beautiful square, a short time will be 12 in the local hastened the development of a tuba of counterfeit products. Now, in China, people in Beijing can be found outside the area than a dozen large cities in Tiananmen Square still, the vast majority of small and medium-sized cities in remote, it is clear that these Plaza is not prepared for the local people.
Made our city, often directly based not only Western developed countries, China has also become some of the other cities to imitate other cities copying the object. Beijing in a particular historical period of a Central finalized a ring outside the "sharing pie" type of urban expansion mode, to be many other cities as urban planning Baodianpian. China's inland cities in a suit, and repairs to the second ring when the mountain face, or insist on a ring, even if only half of painting Central. Construction of single imitate more widespread recently, suffering from the controversial National Grand Theater has also become the subject of imitation, "Dome" has been emerging elsewhere.
In a very short time, we copy the city of Hong Kong, reproduction Paris, New York, copy, copy the 1000 City side, the historical city precipitation every day by missing a charm. But at the end, why Hong Kong is Hong Kong, Paris, why is Paris, New York, New York is why, I wonder how many were concerned about? (Hong Cao Bei)
Unrelated to the Town Planning and ideals
"If someone committed a crime on the city, planners is not principal, but he will escape the dry line"
Said, Jin Xiaomei doing the work, in many people's imagination, with the dreamy colors - design a city. As Beijing Urban Planning Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua overall planning director, Jin Xiaomei the hands of the total
34 urban planning at the same time doing tasks, a city average of initial planning to do down at least in more than two years.
Right Jin Xiaomei, her work and the romantic ideal city includes, without more, is the constant with all aspects of the see-saw and compromise. In doing overall city planning, local leaders of a standard thinking is the most common problems encountered now clearly a city population of only 500,000, chosen to do under the 200 million population planning. This time, Jin Xiaomei they always do our best to explain and persuade, to convince the majority of cases will still effective. While local issues, compromise is often one of the planners. Remember Jin Xiaomei, a northwest inland cities to discuss the choice of plants, city leaders insist the area is not appropriate to introduce local growth cherry, the result of many, many also died.
Planning is not all differences can reach a compromise in the final hours, Jin Xiaomei had conceded this project. In the South City to do a road network planning, Jin Xiaomei with local leading officials produced strong differences. The city has a revolutionary monument, local leaders want to center this monument to imitate the Arc De Triomphe in Paris as the center of the road network radiating structure, the layout of the city's main traffic lines. While Jin Xiaomei and colleagues in the survey found that the feasibility of the network structure of the poor. Despite spent a very long time to communicate, neither side in this issue half a step backward. Finally, Jin Xiaomei they can only withdraw from the project, from planning another hospital took over.
Insects have part-time as mayor of a city in Shanxi, and the Assistant Planning Division, where, in addition to the same voluntary, he also strongly of the lonely.
Once, Kunming for a subordinate to the county planning Commercial Street, the region has a Ming Dynasty walls, the walls along the CAF designed Belt, and the district leadership to adhere to walls made of shops. The two sides stalemate, and later mayor of intervention, but the leadership of the decision-making has not been affected. Shops built up, the walls were completely obscured.
Another occasion, Kunming found by a city planning area, a few hundred meters long residual Northern Qi Dynasty City. Insects and the region to talk about planning for the leadership bypassed the road, just one opening, the office cadres misunderstood the meaning of Kunming, quick-not worried about comfort, "trees ah, on the night to find bulldozers leveled it." Insects quick to explain why he wanted to keep this wall and the wall calendar the value of history, finally leading nodded: "OK, then leave it." Then works reach the hands of developers, in order to reduce cost, Kunming building designed by color and style of constantly been tampered with, and even to change beyond recognition. After the completion of the project, Insects afraid to scene, and do not dare to admit that it is their work.
"Planning is political." Jin Xiaomei summing up as a town planning division of work experience, said with deep feeling.
"Do urban planning, this should be idealists. But after working 23, his idealism color was covered by half. If he still wanted to eat the meal that mouth, within five years, will become out-and-out compromise commentators. "Insects this analogy:" If someone committed a crime on the city, planners is not principal, but he will escape the dry line. "(Hong Cao Bei)
Sex and the City
Everyone has the desire to look at all kinds of urban desire wrestling results. In a sense, the strong will become its own city desires carrier, which city is their minority city, construction commentators, publisher of right - "Newsweek" that, in this city of the campaign, all the entrants were full of desire, it is some of Desire inappropriate way to the formation of torque, depicting the face of our city.
The desire
The 1990s, "with international practice" became the slogan of the era strongest voice, "the demeanor of" self-start urban policy-makers ready to make ordinary mention Western cities, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, the super city, it seems between be eligible to become the blueprint for our city subsidiaries. At present, China has 183 cities to be built "international metropolis," and about 661 cities nationwide total of 27%.
Desire of the international urban construction of another performance, where important projects have invited international star architects to design. National Grand Theater, "Dome" in the French architect Paul Andrew to a number of programs, he is a most unsatisfactory; Pritzker Architecture Prize won the masters of architecture Koolhaas designed the hugely expensive CCTV new building also suffered a strange and controversial style, it really the need for such a building? Shi Jianxin, it is more apparent than the demonstrators. Please foreign teacher made such a construction is not perhaps for the Chinese people to see, it is actually only a gesture. Its existence is to tell the foreigners said: "I omnipotent."
Addition to the internationalization of the development can not be stopped for a while desire. Development has become the only purpose of the only indicators. All around the city, "the big difference for N" slogan, variable N getting smaller. Koolhaas once mock Chinese architects: "China is the architect of the American architect 1 / 10, 1 / 5 the time the design of the building five times, and they only in the United States for the design of an architect / 10. This means that the Chinese architects efficiency is accompanied by 2,500 times. "
Personal desires
If the 1950s to the 1970s were as large generation, a common characteristic is that they all had experienced extreme poverty predicaments. When many of them were now become a consumer-led so-called "middle class" will be some child that they will not have this life things, such as houses and cars, to stimulate a desire to be difficult to curb. While these large consumer of personal ownership, and urban landscape have great relevance.
Housing as a huge consumption on a very high chain link and the recognition in style, with the consumer does not suit a great difference. 150 years of national Sadness, the culture of the Chinese people lost a lot of self-confidence. Therefore, the Yangtze River Delta, "a city of nine town" exotic simulation, Beijing bitterly cold winter in the "blue Aegean Sea", and "Green town," "Seine Valley," "O-spring" ... yuan deliberately creating a European-style urban living environment of Alma will hit consumers.
In "Newsweek" and Sina.com joint online survey, 60.05% of people believe that the urban road width indifferent, as long as motorists do not like congestion. When the car became the dominant urban space, and the person becomes "of the car." To facilitate traffic, lanes were removed, increasing the road width, pedestrian, like running around like a small road quickly. People rush from one shift to another indoor indoor, urban public space full of anxiety and danger.
Investigations revealed that in the cities, people with the best of a newspaper to drink a cup of coffee is at street coffee Block. "Urban Research and Design leisure environment," Ma, author of a book CIRC said: "urban public space to conduct exchanges for the purpose of leisure and the design of the city an important part of the charm. But the ideal is ideal, the Chinese people are too busy, and even the so-called middle class has not been able to stop. In City City street children selling spent too little time. "
Chinese cities from the chaotic disorder, Fu Gang see "incomparable energy, in order to live a better life, to live a strong desire to mix." That desire was "not natural things, but from the lack of repression, from dreaming alone can not meet the aspirations. "
"Today's China Town, reflects the extremely depressed after the outbreak of madness." Gang Fu said.
Good city is a natural growth out
System has been the sixth generation of Chinese film in the city image-writers the freedom to "share" is defined to portray cities words. "We modernization is the result of consultations. Everyone gathered in the city to share the costs of modernization. Everyone in the city should be fully expressed their own interests while respecting the interests of others. "Crazy development Sex and the City, any imposition may lead to the will of the whole city laceration , planning is the same.
Gang Fu, Fei Jing couples living and working in New York for 18 years, 100 years ago this desire of city planning have a profound experience. In their view, in 1811 the establishment of the Manhattan grid, flexible and inclusive, 200 years to adapt to the rapid development brought about by the changes.
Jing Fei, a good city is a natural growth out of the planning is not out of the city by the natural growth of the real, not artificial.
"City wants, eight Shiquan are available, but perhaps nothing mix. Town planners and architects of the election is expected formula, the executive master degree, users continuously stirred ... "in the face of Sex and the City, planning can do, it is no future purpose of the growth in the inclusive enough space.
Urban planning Curse
"Town planning" this term is 20 in the 1950s translated from the Russian, this should be translated into the "city", and then later, in another governmental organizations Chong, it translated into "urban planning." China Urban Planning, in accordance with the basic disciplines of the modern city planning to set up the theory, and this theory from the 1960s was due to lack of human and people's widely questioned.
"States to establish rules for the city is the most frightening, because no matter what the rules are a simplified way of thinking." Rong said. "1000 is a prerequisite for a city of 1,000 a city law." So far, the only one planning law without any local planning regulations, the natural growth of cities can have differences, but an experienced planning, in this first layer was filtered out.
CAF General Clauses of the current planning as a concept, the projection system: "Now we must build before '- a few-', 'a-' is a terrible, it is the difference-to the reality of the soil."
For older urban policy makers, the memory of the past full of tragic lack, in their minds, modern vision of a strong, it is just discarded as soon as the city's historical memory. Given differences in temperament to the historical city has thus loosening the soil, and they take a direct tool is a matter of the past in the "city plan" idea.
"China's current system, all urban development impetus came from government departments, the city real possibility of a completely obliterated." - Said. In past years from the planning maneuvered stimulation, a part of the city desire to wantonly landfill, and as a city based public charm and diversity, geographical differences and humanistic care, was a little bit erased.
"Chinese cities but the real development for more than 20 years before the time. In the short term, urban construction could mobilize resources, the methodology, based on convergence, it is inevitable. "Compared to constantly planning Disenchantment historical city, Kunming, those who are now starting to see Metro down to size-fits-all may not be too worried. If, in time, in the constant chance superposition of the elutriation history, albeit in different cities will be displayed.
However, some domestic scholars do not want to "add charm" responsibility to the younger, and how they began to establish a new contemporary Chinese Urban Planning study. It now appears that the recognition of the natural growth of cities on the basis of "micro-planning" may be an artificial "Tim Enchantment" possible. Some of the planning policy gaps, such as the real estate market or Wudaokou such as urban planning not to patronize a small region, the experimental exploration has begun. (Hong Cao Bei)
City to Who -
Building in the city today, the most popular slogan is "people-oriented", the mayors to favor "Urban Habitat," designed by architect "of human space", also got "poetic settled" as a selling point, 1:00, "Humane march in to pay," in the planning and construction built in vogue, yes or not? - Grounded? Need to distinguish between small increase.
Planning and building human scale, of course, is a good thing, but the people at all times and at the Hollywood royalty and the other, what kind of person is this great occasion of the play.
Looking around our city, regardless of the city or outside the city is densely populated, residential demolition everywhere in the road extension, more rapid adoption of vehicles engaging in closed roads in the urban areas, pedestrian crawl under the Road flyover, which is car-oriented rather than pedestrian-oriented;
Urban construction for the city's beauty, and they are protecting the landscape Avenue, lacking the square career not only to see a large green space, easy access to the higher level of recognition, is the model for building cities, the harvest is performance, which is people-oriented rather than officials based;
Luxury, feudal, imperial era buildings full of urban public space, a huge column out, the gateway to the majestic, millions of the auditorium, most people only go inside even feel ashamed insignificance, the performance of such a building is the royal authority, is for the bigwigs instead of the civilian-based;
With international practice into the building everywhere Yang Shang, China's cities full of foreigners dumping garbage landscape, Beijing, Shanghai Experimental become foreign architects, the design strange to foreigners may green way in China, which is Western-oriented rather than people-oriented China.
Today, the city not pedestrian-oriented, people-oriented, and the Chinese people - civilians - based, people-centered view has a bit suspicious, people-oriented just an empty slogan.
The pedestrian-friendly city, its streets will maintain a calm Wandering about is the scale, pedestrian streets in the free shuttle on both sides, and not give up too broad streets because half of the Street patronize shops and public facilities. When pedestrians can enjoy the use of all the resources the street, he was not only convenient, but more security.
American cities that sociologists Jacob: If a very safe city streets, away from the brutal and fear, then the city will be far away from the generally brutal and fear.
Maintain a safe city in the city streets and sidewalks of the main tasks. Shanghai Century Avenue is a central careful with the landscape design, but almost no attention because the road is too wide, some pedestrians walked slowly often need two pedestrians can cross the road the green light, most pedestrians crossing the road pressing the tension by storm, which also thought to watch road landscape? The most modern neighborhoods, often is not the most pedestrian friendly place.
Opened in Shanghai in recent years the landscape green, too beautiful and too sophisticated, even people close to both people did not dare close, Greenbelt become a "green altar" decisions to the real benefit of the people of urban public space? A construction of Jurists says, "a wealth of humanity public buildings, to make people feel warm here, feel enthusiastic accepted, it does not have the slightest superior attitude, visitors are suppressed, or passing the flu have been excluded." (Han Bao-de: "Fine construction said, "No. 159, Hebei Education Press, 2003).
People are cordial cities, the first is to let the local people are friendly city, is the characteristics of urban areas, rather than simply examining city. Everyone is familiar with the flu and named a cordial environment will become our common memory and symbols of the source, one must therefore be united and to interact with each other.
Myself to the Shanghai Center City landscape in vivid impression of a childhood and youth, her familiar with the texture, rhythm and charm. After passing through earlier stayed the old street blocks, often inexplicable moving. She ourselves from the feelings of young urban experience.
City is a result of our experience can become revered nearly always seem to person. When people frequently open to deal with these bulldozers Street in the old building, this is the humanistic spirit of the urban construction? (Source: China Newsweek in the sea: Fudan University professor in the Sociology Department)
Why the city when we do something right when the city's charm will be missing? Those Disenchantment or pale or crazy city faces, who decides? Can save?
Many urban planning is a charm enemy. More often, the planning was brought to 1,000 the embarrassment of a City
Wudaokou Haidian District in Beijing, with CityRail into QIAN Street block intersections, Fu Gang of the study. In this corner of the city, Gang Fu seemed "to see 100 years ago in New York, confusion flourishing in the disorder, primitive accumulation of strife struggling for the survival and development of Dubai cluster can to achieve the dream of the various divisions and hidden desire for the outbreak."
Year, coincidentally, visiting professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the United States registered architects Gang Fu, and his wife Fei Jing, an associate professor at Tsinghua University School of Architecture Insects regarded themselves on the new theory of urban planning target in Wudaokou.
Past 20 years, Wudaokou plays hot rock, with a population distribution, fashion apparel distribution outpost, the famous yellow den, Kazakhstan HAN Sheng, punk source, and a series of roles. And now, and the Gang Fu Rong them, Wudaokou value on the same point, namely, it is neither rare Beijing laps in a large courtyard units, I can assure the Town Planning overhaul before, a small sparrow suitable places in semi-urban areas, distribution of a natural growth of the wild Man flavor.
"This is a significantly with the diversity and complexity of the ecological village," Rong explained Wudaokou attract his reasons, "It can be seen as a representative sample of urban life." In Kunming view, the diversity and complexity of this in the United States each provide one molecule, the comfort and care, is the charm of the urban space, and now the Wudaokou, are losing this charm.
Used in Hong Kong?
In "Newsweek" and Sina.com joint "your city ideal" in the online survey, 16,877 people, 29.46% of people most want to live in cities with the quality of construction is "beautiful appearance, the sense of art" and " convenience comfortable "is ranked in the following second. "You want to live in the historic city age" one, 38.38% of people living in the historic city hope that the age of 200 years or more. Once they left town, the majority said, except for economic factors, most could not take the point is "the lack of change in life."
According to the China Internet
15th report issued by the data, 69% of Internet users are aged below 35 years of age, visible, rich and varied, historical connotation and aesthetic taste City "charm", has become a present value of the ideal young urban preference.
On public space may be provided by the United States, comfort and care, people are always pinning hopes on the planning. However, the reality of a taunt to the people, most of the so-called planning is becoming a damaging. One look in all directions, "planning" Wherever he went, the city lost the charm of the original. "Planning is a city charm of the enemy." Speeds, Xiushui market, Sanlitun Street South, half of the Gui Street, Beijing "was planning to destroy" the charm of nodes, Rong said, can speak on a string.
Mid-April, the non-government environmental protection organization "Friends" founder of the Chinese construction ancestors Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, son of Age in Hong Kong to attend academic activities, he said the Beijing city landscape may have become a "secondary" the worrying.
Recently, "China Newsweek," I confirm Liang, Liang explained, "Hong Kong secondary," said he is from some foreigners in Beijing to hear, to present them will feel sad. "Beijing is so deep and long-standing historical context, but did not make good use of, now fall to be called 'secondary Hong Kong', this is what the Ho As this ah!"
Beijing city outlook, as advocates are really worried, "even if Hong Kong does not?" The number of urban domestic scholars have said it, no matter where on the one hand, Beijing and Hong Kong are not comparable. Interviewed in the Age, the feelings expressed understanding at all for not.
Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute of Yin Zhi that, in urban planning, a failure to mention the typical, it is the most notorious - the high-density buildings, mainly due to narrow, and in planning and management, and even many of Hong Kong in reference place. Ching is right for Hong Kong to enjoy a city temperament and, in her view, in all Chinese cities, Hong Kong is a rare free development of cities. "In particular about age rank, grade demarcation of China, Hong Kong is a different number, it's unique temperament created it with the urban culture of human nature."
However, beyond doubt, not only Beijing, many of China's cities, is in a period by the impact of this period in the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. "Mr Leung said this evening for a decade." Rong said, "Hong Kong model, interesting, by around 1995, has been city planners have abandoned."
Although some domestic
geographical conditions similar to Hong Kong and the cities have been deliberately copy the features, but wrong. Fee Ching said: "Even if the entire city which Victoria Bay and Mid-levels have been totally cloning again, it can not become Hong Kong. Because it lacks shape Hong Kong's free spirit. "
A 1000 City
The mid-1990s, China entered the city speed development period, as of 2002, Chinese cities increased by 475 per seat in the planned population above 420,000. But this time, coincides with the world into the information age, the modern urban world that the Chinese people are bare eyes. In Hong Kong, Chinese people have integrated the rest of the world the impression that the many fragments gradually draw the standards of the modern city like: high-rise, high-density and large squares, broad avenues.
Shanghai in the past decade the number of new skyscrapers, than the entire west coast of the United States all more than the sum of skyscrapers, high-rise buildings are increasing in Shanghai ground. In the northwest city of a certain level, the whole city was only a dozen of the high-rise, city leaders believe that the lack of modern urban temperament, ordered local telecommunications companies to build their own Zhigongqishelou 22 layers.
Square is the city's image in the West typical of ancient Greece when the space is public exchanges, such as gradually taking shape after several centuries of Venice basilica known as "Europe's most beautiful living room." China city leaders go abroad to see these beautiful square, a short time will be 12 in the local hastened the development of a tuba of counterfeit products. Now, in China, people in Beijing can be found outside the area than a dozen large cities in Tiananmen Square still, the vast majority of small and medium-sized cities in remote, it is clear that these Plaza is not prepared for the local people.
Made our city, often directly based not only Western developed countries, China has also become some of the other cities to imitate other cities copying the object. Beijing in a particular historical period of a Central finalized a ring outside the "sharing pie" type of urban expansion mode, to be many other cities as urban planning Baodianpian. China's inland cities in a suit, and repairs to the second ring when the mountain face, or insist on a ring, even if only half of painting Central. Construction of single imitate more widespread recently, suffering from the controversial National Grand Theater has also become the subject of imitation, "Dome" has been emerging elsewhere.
In a very short time, we copy the city of Hong Kong, reproduction Paris, New York, copy, copy the 1000 City side, the historical city precipitation every day by missing a charm. But at the end, why Hong Kong is Hong Kong, Paris, why is Paris, New York, New York is why, I wonder how many were concerned about? (Hong Cao Bei)
Unrelated to the Town Planning and ideals
"If someone committed a crime on the city, planners is not principal, but he will escape the dry line"
Said, Jin Xiaomei doing the work, in many people's imagination, with the dreamy colors - design a city. As Beijing Urban Planning Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua overall planning director, Jin Xiaomei the hands of the total
34 urban planning at the same time doing tasks, a city average of initial planning to do down at least in more than two years.
Right Jin Xiaomei, her work and the romantic ideal city includes, without more, is the constant with all aspects of the see-saw and compromise. In doing overall city planning, local leaders of a standard thinking is the most common problems encountered now clearly a city population of only 500,000, chosen to do under the 200 million population planning. This time, Jin Xiaomei they always do our best to explain and persuade, to convince the majority of cases will still effective. While local issues, compromise is often one of the planners. Remember Jin Xiaomei, a northwest inland cities to discuss the choice of plants, city leaders insist the area is not appropriate to introduce local growth cherry, the result of many, many also died.
Planning is not all differences can reach a compromise in the final hours, Jin Xiaomei had conceded this project. In the South City to do a road network planning, Jin Xiaomei with local leading officials produced strong differences. The city has a revolutionary monument, local leaders want to center this monument to imitate the Arc De Triomphe in Paris as the center of the road network radiating structure, the layout of the city's main traffic lines. While Jin Xiaomei and colleagues in the survey found that the feasibility of the network structure of the poor. Despite spent a very long time to communicate, neither side in this issue half a step backward. Finally, Jin Xiaomei they can only withdraw from the project, from planning another hospital took over.
Insects have part-time as mayor of a city in Shanxi, and the Assistant Planning Division, where, in addition to the same voluntary, he also strongly of the lonely.
Once, Kunming for a subordinate to the county planning Commercial Street, the region has a Ming Dynasty walls, the walls along the CAF designed Belt, and the district leadership to adhere to walls made of shops. The two sides stalemate, and later mayor of intervention, but the leadership of the decision-making has not been affected. Shops built up, the walls were completely obscured.
Another occasion, Kunming found by a city planning area, a few hundred meters long residual Northern Qi Dynasty City. Insects and the region to talk about planning for the leadership bypassed the road, just one opening, the office cadres misunderstood the meaning of Kunming, quick-not worried about comfort, "trees ah, on the night to find bulldozers leveled it." Insects quick to explain why he wanted to keep this wall and the wall calendar the value of history, finally leading nodded: "OK, then leave it." Then works reach the hands of developers, in order to reduce cost, Kunming building designed by color and style of constantly been tampered with, and even to change beyond recognition. After the completion of the project, Insects afraid to scene, and do not dare to admit that it is their work.
"Planning is political." Jin Xiaomei summing up as a town planning division of work experience, said with deep feeling.
"Do urban planning, this should be idealists. But after working 23, his idealism color was covered by half. If he still wanted to eat the meal that mouth, within five years, will become out-and-out compromise commentators. "Insects this analogy:" If someone committed a crime on the city, planners is not principal, but he will escape the dry line. "(Hong Cao Bei)
Sex and the City
Everyone has the desire to look at all kinds of urban desire wrestling results. In a sense, the strong will become its own city desires carrier, which city is their minority city, construction commentators, publisher of right - "Newsweek" that, in this city of the campaign, all the entrants were full of desire, it is some of Desire inappropriate way to the formation of torque, depicting the face of our city.
The desire
The 1990s, "with international practice" became the slogan of the era strongest voice, "the demeanor of" self-start urban policy-makers ready to make ordinary mention Western cities, New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, the super city, it seems between be eligible to become the blueprint for our city subsidiaries. At present, China has 183 cities to be built "international metropolis," and about 661 cities nationwide total of 27%.
Desire of the international urban construction of another performance, where important projects have invited international star architects to design. National Grand Theater, "Dome" in the French architect Paul Andrew to a number of programs, he is a most unsatisfactory; Pritzker Architecture Prize won the masters of architecture Koolhaas designed the hugely expensive CCTV new building also suffered a strange and controversial style, it really the need for such a building? Shi Jianxin, it is more apparent than the demonstrators. Please foreign teacher made such a construction is not perhaps for the Chinese people to see, it is actually only a gesture. Its existence is to tell the foreigners said: "I omnipotent."
Addition to the internationalization of the development can not be stopped for a while desire. Development has become the only purpose of the only indicators. All around the city, "the big difference for N" slogan, variable N getting smaller. Koolhaas once mock Chinese architects: "China is the architect of the American architect 1 / 10, 1 / 5 the time the design of the building five times, and they only in the United States for the design of an architect / 10. This means that the Chinese architects efficiency is accompanied by 2,500 times. "
Personal desires
If the 1950s to the 1970s were as large generation, a common characteristic is that they all had experienced extreme poverty predicaments. When many of them were now become a consumer-led so-called "middle class" will be some child that they will not have this life things, such as houses and cars, to stimulate a desire to be difficult to curb. While these large consumer of personal ownership, and urban landscape have great relevance.
Housing as a huge consumption on a very high chain link and the recognition in style, with the consumer does not suit a great difference. 150 years of national Sadness, the culture of the Chinese people lost a lot of self-confidence. Therefore, the Yangtze River Delta, "a city of nine town" exotic simulation, Beijing bitterly cold winter in the "blue Aegean Sea", and "Green town," "Seine Valley," "O-spring" ... yuan deliberately creating a European-style urban living environment of Alma will hit consumers.
In "Newsweek" and Sina.com joint online survey, 60.05% of people believe that the urban road width indifferent, as long as motorists do not like congestion. When the car became the dominant urban space, and the person becomes "of the car." To facilitate traffic, lanes were removed, increasing the road width, pedestrian, like running around like a small road quickly. People rush from one shift to another indoor indoor, urban public space full of anxiety and danger.
Investigations revealed that in the cities, people with the best of a newspaper to drink a cup of coffee is at street coffee Block. "Urban Research and Design leisure environment," Ma, author of a book CIRC said: "urban public space to conduct exchanges for the purpose of leisure and the design of the city an important part of the charm. But the ideal is ideal, the Chinese people are too busy, and even the so-called middle class has not been able to stop. In City City street children selling spent too little time. "
Chinese cities from the chaotic disorder, Fu Gang see "incomparable energy, in order to live a better life, to live a strong desire to mix." That desire was "not natural things, but from the lack of repression, from dreaming alone can not meet the aspirations. "
"Today's China Town, reflects the extremely depressed after the outbreak of madness." Gang Fu said.
Good city is a natural growth out
System has been the sixth generation of Chinese film in the city image-writers the freedom to "share" is defined to portray cities words. "We modernization is the result of consultations. Everyone gathered in the city to share the costs of modernization. Everyone in the city should be fully expressed their own interests while respecting the interests of others. "Crazy development Sex and the City, any imposition may lead to the will of the whole city laceration , planning is the same.
Gang Fu, Fei Jing couples living and working in New York for 18 years, 100 years ago this desire of city planning have a profound experience. In their view, in 1811 the establishment of the Manhattan grid, flexible and inclusive, 200 years to adapt to the rapid development brought about by the changes.
Jing Fei, a good city is a natural growth out of the planning is not out of the city by the natural growth of the real, not artificial.
"City wants, eight Shiquan are available, but perhaps nothing mix. Town planners and architects of the election is expected formula, the executive master degree, users continuously stirred ... "in the face of Sex and the City, planning can do, it is no future purpose of the growth in the inclusive enough space.
Urban planning Curse
"Town planning" this term is 20 in the 1950s translated from the Russian, this should be translated into the "city", and then later, in another governmental organizations Chong, it translated into "urban planning." China Urban Planning, in accordance with the basic disciplines of the modern city planning to set up the theory, and this theory from the 1960s was due to lack of human and people's widely questioned.
"States to establish rules for the city is the most frightening, because no matter what the rules are a simplified way of thinking." Rong said. "1000 is a prerequisite for a city of 1,000 a city law." So far, the only one planning law without any local planning regulations, the natural growth of cities can have differences, but an experienced planning, in this first layer was filtered out.
CAF General Clauses of the current planning as a concept, the projection system: "Now we must build before '- a few-', 'a-' is a terrible, it is the difference-to the reality of the soil."
For older urban policy makers, the memory of the past full of tragic lack, in their minds, modern vision of a strong, it is just discarded as soon as the city's historical memory. Given differences in temperament to the historical city has thus loosening the soil, and they take a direct tool is a matter of the past in the "city plan" idea.
"China's current system, all urban development impetus came from government departments, the city real possibility of a completely obliterated." - Said. In past years from the planning maneuvered stimulation, a part of the city desire to wantonly landfill, and as a city based public charm and diversity, geographical differences and humanistic care, was a little bit erased.
"Chinese cities but the real development for more than 20 years before the time. In the short term, urban construction could mobilize resources, the methodology, based on convergence, it is inevitable. "Compared to constantly planning Disenchantment historical city, Kunming, those who are now starting to see Metro down to size-fits-all may not be too worried. If, in time, in the constant chance superposition of the elutriation history, albeit in different cities will be displayed.
However, some domestic scholars do not want to "add charm" responsibility to the younger, and how they began to establish a new contemporary Chinese Urban Planning study. It now appears that the recognition of the natural growth of cities on the basis of "micro-planning" may be an artificial "Tim Enchantment" possible. Some of the planning policy gaps, such as the real estate market or Wudaokou such as urban planning not to patronize a small region, the experimental exploration has begun. (Hong Cao Bei)
City to Who -
Building in the city today, the most popular slogan is "people-oriented", the mayors to favor "Urban Habitat," designed by architect "of human space", also got "poetic settled" as a selling point, 1:00, "Humane march in to pay," in the planning and construction built in vogue, yes or not? - Grounded? Need to distinguish between small increase.
Planning and building human scale, of course, is a good thing, but the people at all times and at the Hollywood royalty and the other, what kind of person is this great occasion of the play.
Looking around our city, regardless of the city or outside the city is densely populated, residential demolition everywhere in the road extension, more rapid adoption of vehicles engaging in closed roads in the urban areas, pedestrian crawl under the Road flyover, which is car-oriented rather than pedestrian-oriented;
Urban construction for the city's beauty, and they are protecting the landscape Avenue, lacking the square career not only to see a large green space, easy access to the higher level of recognition, is the model for building cities, the harvest is performance, which is people-oriented rather than officials based;
Luxury, feudal, imperial era buildings full of urban public space, a huge column out, the gateway to the majestic, millions of the auditorium, most people only go inside even feel ashamed insignificance, the performance of such a building is the royal authority, is for the bigwigs instead of the civilian-based;
With international practice into the building everywhere Yang Shang, China's cities full of foreigners dumping garbage landscape, Beijing, Shanghai Experimental become foreign architects, the design strange to foreigners may green way in China, which is Western-oriented rather than people-oriented China.
Today, the city not pedestrian-oriented, people-oriented, and the Chinese people - civilians - based, people-centered view has a bit suspicious, people-oriented just an empty slogan.
The pedestrian-friendly city, its streets will maintain a calm Wandering about is the scale, pedestrian streets in the free shuttle on both sides, and not give up too broad streets because half of the Street patronize shops and public facilities. When pedestrians can enjoy the use of all the resources the street, he was not only convenient, but more security.
American cities that sociologists Jacob: If a very safe city streets, away from the brutal and fear, then the city will be far away from the generally brutal and fear.
Maintain a safe city in the city streets and sidewalks of the main tasks. Shanghai Century Avenue is a central careful with the landscape design, but almost no attention because the road is too wide, some pedestrians walked slowly often need two pedestrians can cross the road the green light, most pedestrians crossing the road pressing the tension by storm, which also thought to watch road landscape? The most modern neighborhoods, often is not the most pedestrian friendly place.
Opened in Shanghai in recent years the landscape green, too beautiful and too sophisticated, even people close to both people did not dare close, Greenbelt become a "green altar" decisions to the real benefit of the people of urban public space? A construction of Jurists says, "a wealth of humanity public buildings, to make people feel warm here, feel enthusiastic accepted, it does not have the slightest superior attitude, visitors are suppressed, or passing the flu have been excluded." (Han Bao-de: "Fine construction said, "No. 159, Hebei Education Press, 2003).
People are cordial cities, the first is to let the local people are friendly city, is the characteristics of urban areas, rather than simply examining city. Everyone is familiar with the flu and named a cordial environment will become our common memory and symbols of the source, one must therefore be united and to interact with each other.
Myself to the Shanghai Center City landscape in vivid impression of a childhood and youth, her familiar with the texture, rhythm and charm. After passing through earlier stayed the old street blocks, often inexplicable moving. She ourselves from the feelings of young urban experience.
City is a result of our experience can become revered nearly always seem to person. When people frequently open to deal with these bulldozers Street in the old building, this is the humanistic spirit of the urban construction? (Source: China Newsweek in the sea: Fudan University professor in the Sociology Department)
