Selected Examples of Contemporary Domestic and International Residential Area Planning

Author: China Architecture & Building Press
Publisher:
Publish Date: 1998-09-01
Features: This book starts from the current residential area construction in China, combining the experience of residential area construction abroad, pointing out the achievements and existing problems we have currently achieved; according to the characteristics of urban modernization and residents' lives, it discusses how to plan and build modern residential areas. In the case section of this book, the author selects 55 representative domestic and foreign residential areas built in recent years and analyzes them one by one. The case content is concise, illustrated with text and pictures, and has strong data and reference value.
Table of Contents:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 1 Review of Urban Residential Area Construction in China
1. Ancient Chinese Urban Residential Area Planning
2. Modern Chinese Urban Residential Area Planning
3. Achievements of Residential Construction in More Than 40 Years Since the Founding of the Country
Chapter 2 Residential Area Planning and Design Under the Mechanism of Residential Commodityization
1. Well-off Living Standards
2. Main Factors Restricting Urban Residential Development
3. Residential Commodityization Requires Residential Area Planning Theory to Adapt to Market Mechanisms
4. Grasping the Essential Characteristics of Commodityized Housing and Seeking New Bases for Residential Area Planning and Design
5. Commodityized Housing Requires Reasonable and Flexible Construction Standards
6. Enhance Commodity Awareness, Carefully Design, Reduce Costs, and Eliminate Unreasonable Fees
7. External Environmental Value of Commodityized Housing
8. Three Benefit Coordination Mechanisms Under Residential Commodityization
9. Improve Planning Standards and Organize Residential Areas Reasonably Based on Residential Commodityization and Well-off Living
10. Let Residents Choose and Arrange Their Own Lifestyles
11. Under the Mechanism of Residential Commodityization, Residential Area Planning Shifts from "Expert Planning" or "Leader Planning" to "Public Planning"
12. The Scientific Nature of Residential Area Planning—Feasibility
Chapter 3 Outdoor Environment Design of Residential Areas
1. What Residents Are Thinking—Proposing Issues of Living Environment
2. Interrelationship Between Hard and Soft Environments
3. Categories of Resident Behavioral Activities and Their Interrelationship with the Environment
4. Residential Behavioral Characteristics and Living Environment
5. Spatial Environment Organization of Residential Areas
6. Diversification of Residential Area Planning and Design
Chapter 4 Selected Cases
1. Wuxi Qin Yuan Village
2. Jinan Yanzi Mountain Experimental Residential Community
3. (Continued with the rest of the case names)
45. Beijing Fangzhuang New Area
46. Yangzi Petrochemical Company Administrative and Residential Area Planning Scheme
54. Amsterdam Slaughterhouse Social Housing in the Netherlands
55. Firthwood Estate in Milton Keynes New Town in the UK