Research On Health-oriented Urban Park Landscape

City Park is an important site for residents’ daily entertainment,physical exercise,and knowledge study,which has a positive effect on people’s health.However,there are several long existing problems in park construction,including featureless sameness,single function,and lack of attention to vulnerable groups.Thus,we choose City Park as the research object of the application in health concept and adopt people’s demand for healthas the starting point to discuss the methods of satiating peoples psychological,physiological and social health demands,which has a great significance to solving the healthy problems we face.This paper first defines the health and city park-related concepts,teases and analyzes the relevant research progress and theoretical literature,laying the theoretical foundation for the content of this study.Secondly,on the basis of the relevant theoretical research,this paper analyzes the health needs of the people by usingquestionnaire survey.Then it uses the health needs as a starting point to discuss the key health factors of urban parks and to prepare for further exploring design strategies of healthy urban park landscape.Next,we point out unhealthy current situation of City Park through field investigations in urban parks of Hefei,providing a basis for judgments of the healthy landscape.Through the above theoretical and field research summary,combining with the urban park health elements,the main body of the article uses human health needs as an entry point,startout here from certain aspects including the urban parks’ ecological,physical and human environment,landscape and activity space,public service facilities,Barrier-free systems,and apply the health concept inplanning and design of urban park landscape.Combining health concepts with the landscape design of City Parks can successfully meet the health needs of usersand promote the overall health of the public.Finally,this study,basing on the case study of Luzhou Park in Hefei and the established theories from field investigations,analyzes and evaluates Luzhou Park by health concepts and comes up with suggestions for improvement against the problem of the unhealthy current situation to identify the feasibility of the theory.This study can be viewed as an interdisciplinary research for it involves multidisciplinary studies including environmental psychology,environmental behavior and landscape ecology.We work out design strategies of urban park through the study of health concepts,and use them in actual projects for testing themselves.Our study would provide some insights and guidance for the construction of urban parks under the healthconcept.It would also provide reference for relative research.