PARKS UNDER THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECOLOGICAL URBANISM

ZHAOQI ZHU

The impact of industrialization and urbanization on humans and the environment is manifests in various ways, from challenges to access clean air and water, and curb waste and pollution.1 The current efforts to reestablish urban ecologies is centered on the synthesis of people, society, and nature, with a strong focus on sustainability.2 Along with acknowledging the deterioration of the environment and citizens’ desire to reconnect with nature, the paper focuses on the role of urbanf parks in bringing ecological benefits to the city.

China’s modernization has brought economic and technological progress along with environmental degradation. When surface water is depleted and groundwater is contaminated, how to restore once healthy soil and water conditions with the help of the latest science and technology? This paper examine the relationship between urban development and ecological systems through two case studies Freshkills Park in New York State with the Beach Restoration project in Qinhuangdao, China. Both projects areprevious landfills that have been transformed into parks for urban dwellers and wildlife. Since human civilization is part of the overall natural resources, all forms of life on earth are dependent on.3 The article will look at the impact on soil and renovation in Freshkills Park and on the city limits, and the treatment of waste piles in Tianjin South Cuiping Park and explore the connections between people and ecology, plants and ecology in order to summarize and organize the material flow in the area, and how the role of humans in this process has changed.

Ecosystems have a strong capacity for self-recovery and reverse succession mechanisms, however, today’s environment is subject to natural disturbances in addition to drastic anthropogenic factors”. Designers are increasingly confronted with seemingly worthless abandoned sites, landfills or other damaged areas, restoring the surface of the site in a landscape manner to promote the benign development of the site system. The renovated park creates open spaces between building blocks that provide spaces for the exchange of materials, energy, and information between people and nature. By exporting the energy flow, spatial form, ecology, and compatibility of parks in the city in terms of how contemporary parks develop as urban fabric, not just as urban infrastructure, functional or zoned areas4 By looking at the relationship between urbanism and the functioning of natural systems in parks of different scales, the restoration of the damaged urban fabric, and the integration of new parks into the urban fabric, the research explores the possibilities of park development from an ecological perspective5.

Keywords

Urban Park, Transportation, Energy Flow, Networks, Wildlife.

Urbanisms

Ecological Urbanism, Landscape Urbanism.

Notes

1. Morillas, Juan Miguel Barrigón, et al. “Noise pollution and urban planning.” Current Pollution Reports 4.3 (2018): 208-219.

2. Sharifi, Ayyoob. “From Garden City to Eco-urbanism: The quest for sustainable neighborhood development.” Sustainable Cities and Society 20 (2016): 1-16.

3. Kongjian, Yu. (1999) “Landscape ecological security patterns in biological conservation.” Acta Ecologica Sinica 19.1: 8-15.

4. Andersson, Erik. (2006) “Urban landscapes and sustainable cities.” Ecology and society 11.1.

5. Register, R. (1987). Ecocity Berkeley: building cities for a healthy future. North Atlantic Books