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> The new urbanisation guidelines encourage mixed-use development and recommend that all residents should have improved access to a diverse range of public and
by peter_l_downs 7y ago
> The new urbanisation guidelines encourage mixed-use development and recommend that all residents should have improved access to a diverse range of public and commercial amenities – schools, supermarkets, retirement centers, hospitals, parks, and cultural centers – within range of where they live. There is a special emphasis on green space: the guidelines decree that all city dwellers should have access to public parks, gardens, and other open areas.
If they can pull this off – awesome.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoThey have already tried to do that for years. Many housing developments consist of tower blocks surrounded by a garden, with the ground floors used for convenience stores, hair dressers, etc.
- barry-cotter 7y agoThat’s not what the article is talking about. Not tower blocks, think more like Xuhui or Changning in Shanghai where you have tons of eight story or ten story apartment blocks with the first or first two floors of street facing buildings being small retail, and instead of super blocks that take twenty minutes to walk around, like in Pudong, ones more like in Paris or New York, much smaller. A perfect dense city looks like Brooklyn, Harlem or Paris, not like Pudong.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago> A perfect dense city looks like Brooklyn, Harlem or Paris, not like Pudong. That's your opinion. These places are short of green spaces.
- throw0101a 7y agoThen build more parks. But the "towers in the park" form of land use has been found not to work: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_in_the_park
- barry-cotter 7y agoNothing remotely like Pudong or Puxi in Shanghai. I’m very fortunate to live within walking distance of two small parks in Changning and that is way better than most of Puxi. If you want to see a good example of urban planning look at Singapore. Everything appears to be a park, road, tree or building and there’s plenty of the first two. Whatever a perfect city looks like it does not look like Pudong or any of the rest of the last two decades of development in China with their super blocks, malls, residential gated communities with no retail and everything set up for cars.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago> If you want to see a good example of urban planning look at Singapore. Everything appears to be a park, road, tree or building and there’s plenty of the first two. I'm not disagreeing with that. This is very far from the examples you cited, and more in line with large buildings surrounded by parks that I mentioned. In fact Singapore has drawn on Le Corbusier's idea of "Unité d'habitation" (which I mentioned in another comment)...
- barry-cotter 7y agoDense urban areas with mixed residential, commercial and retail spaces all within walking distance of each other are the antithesis of Le Corbusier’s vision of a perfect city. He would have been appalled by Singapore, if possibly less appalled than by Paris which he would have liked to raze to the ground and rebuild.
- mytailorisrich 7y agoPlease, and for the last time, look at "unité d'habitation" and how it has inspired many developments in Singapore.
- mantap 7y agoSingapore is only dense in the vertical dimension, it's not dense in the horizontal dimensions.
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- bobthepanda 7y agoShort of green spaces, or short of useful green spaces? In general dividing green space into small segmented areas per tower is not useful for most activities for humans or wildlife.