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Size of outdoor public space and variation in urban culture background will cause different activity behaviors. Thermal comfort of local climate will also play a key role as well. This study is mainly investigated the relationship between the microclimate of outdoor public space and personal thermal comfort. Through the unique climate types of certain latitude in Taiwan, it can understand about the...
This paper explores a new method for quantitative estimation of building density and settlement edges based on textural measurements. The evaluation employs an ordered multi-scale, linear regression scheme in which scale corresponds to spatial resolution and is represented by a kernel. The kernel size in the experiment described, ranges from 30 to 1000 meters for a test area of approximately 10.6×26...
During the process of urbanization, the urban population and high economic intensity makes it become a giant disaster body and the problem of urban disaster management is prominent gradually. Based on the enhancement of urban disaster prevention and reduction level, the author in this paper proposes the basic concept of urban disaster prevention and reduction geographical planning, elaborates how...
Currently, urbanization has entered a stage of rapid growth in China, the environmental pollution and ecological destroy of cities are becoming more and more serious day by day. The work field of city planning and design is beginning to expand to undertake a task to improve living and ecological environment due to paying more attention to afforesting and ecological construction. Under the new background...
Dwellings are where the people live in. For a large number of existing traditional dwellings, people are more concerned about its habitability. Aimed at the current situation of residential streets in Quzhou, the article analyzes the influencing factors of the habitability based on the Reconstruction examples of current traditional examples, thinking of the measures that how to improve the living...
Mountainious urban ecological security relates to regional harmonious development and stability, which is a state of controlling key factors and dealing with disasters. Some threat factors are analyzed, such as serious city disasters, bad environmental self-purification capability, contradiction between urban spatial expansion and shortage of land resource, lopsided industrial structure and fragmentation...
The dynamic change of ecological footprint in Ganjiang River Basin during 1999 to 2008 were calculated and analyzed by using the ecological footprint mode though adjusting equilibrium factor and yield factor. Ecological footprint per capita of Ganjiang River basin ascended from 0.8236hm2 in 1999 to 1.3307hm2 in 2008, increasing by 61.6%. While the ecological capacity per capita decreased 0.0288hm2...
As our cities continues to industrialize and urbanize, it is continually creating conditions for more and worse disasters in the future that will, among other things, contribute further to environmental degradation and hinder developmental programs. This paper analyzes the special natural characteristics of Southwest Mountain region, which have two critical features and three development tendencies...
Nowadays global warming has becoming a major human threat to the survival and development: resource depletion, environmental pollution, ecological imbalance and so on. The ecological environmental problem in China is not only impeding the economic development but also give serious harm to people's health. The main purpose of this paper is to find out a suitable solution to energy-saving and emission-reducing...
The paper talks about the value of archetype image of built environment base on the archetype image theory of Carl Gustav Jung. It points out that the archetype strategy is the approach of getting high level environmental qualities. And in virtue of Jung's archetype theory, human beings can set up contacts among modality, aesthetics and meaning, and set up contacts between location and user, further...
It was very careful that the spatial structure and form of the historical town, which the spatial structure of the environment landscape of the exterior and inner, contain order. That human is an integral part of nature is matching layout principle. The landscape space layer of the historical town is obvious, and historic time and historic space are clear. The design principle of the whole landscape...
From the perspective of "human", this study focuses on the feeling of people in a certain region about the waterfront environment, by combining with theories in landscape architecture, environmental psychology and other interdisciplines, in view of present situation of waterfront landscapes in the Yellow River Scenic Area of Zhengzhou City, tries to find new approaches for waterfront landscape...
This paper examines the Dali Bai nationality courtyard folk residence, based on the ecological system theory, modern product design theory and landscape architecture viewpoint. It explores how to put a modern environmental facility into the local regional culture after remolding through the analysis on environmental facility of Bai nationality courtyard folk house in order to adapt the modern ecological...
As an impotant part of urban construction and development, the construction of city culture is of great significance to enhancing the overall city image, improving the overall quality of urban citizens and promoting the sustainable development of economy and socity. Through the analysis of the relationship between public art and city culture, this paper formulates a theoretic framework of the holistic...
Urban development and environment protection are interdependent. In the global environmental crisis, human development faces severe threat. Landscape design is a main content of urban environment design, and its core is to harmonize the relation between human and the environment. In front of the major topic of environment, landscape design faces severe challenge. In order to realize sustainable development,...
The space-time difference between Lingnan waterside village (the representatives of Lingnan regional characteristic) and modern cities is narrowing as time passes by. And the newly emerging waterside villages and towns cannot reflect the special style and features of Lingnan water village. The author, after studying the patterns and linear space-time conception of the very few remaining waterside...
Humans have occupied most of the land surface of the planet since ancient times. There is no doubt that New Taipei City will continue to expand, but in the coming decades, the increasing pressure of urban pollution and global warming, our living space will make it necessary to redefine the model for expansion. This study is seeking a new vision of urbanization and urban Mutualism for New Taipei City...
In the ancient Western society, urban sculpture was often regarded as one symbol of the country or nation. Compared with China's ancient urban sculpture, however, the Western's contains rich secularity. First of all, in ancient Greece, portrait was taken as the center of urban sculpture's expression; secondly, in ancient Roma, the depiction object of urban sculpture was converted from the gods to...
Huayuan Historic Blocks in Harbin has shown a decline in vitality and unsuitability of large-scale updates of the surrounding constructions. Based on these situations, the present study is using the method of environmental behavior to collect and analyze the everyday activities of the local residents without damaging the characteristics of the street. Then it explores the ways that can promote the...
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