Research On Landscape Design Of Pocket Park In Old City Based On Site Characteristics

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up,the urbanization process of China has been accelerating.A large number of people have crowded into the city and high-rise buildings have gradually eroded the original green public spaces in the city.The density of urban buildings has become increasingly saturated,which leads to the reduction and even destruction of urban landscape green spaces.Especially in the old urban areas where buildings and populations are more dense,the urban green space is even more scarce like an oasis in the desert,which is unable to meet people’s daily needs.However,city parks do not have the characteristics of making use of every single space,which makes them unable to be built in the urban areas where land is scarce.Faced with the gradual "aging" situation of urban greening,pocket parks emerge.Their characteristics of small,convenient,flexible,and service-oriented can achieve small-scale and progressive sustainable development of the city.This paper first clarifies the research background and research significance,and gives an overview of the generation and development of pocket parks,as well as summarizes the domestic and foreign research status and related design theories of pocket parks.Then the site characteristics,components and value of pocket parks are investigated and the principles and strategies of the design of pocket parks in the old towns with obvious site characteristics are summarized.In addition,the domestic and foreign pocket parks which have been built based on the characteristics of the site are analyzed.Taking the old town of Jinan as an example,field surveys and mapping on the old town are conducted,and the area size,distribution location,current landscape,use situation as well as public awareness of all open spaces in the site are sorted out.The site is thoroughly investigated and the existing problems in the oldtown are summarized.Finally,the author selected the representative old town-Wenhua East Road area in Jinan for design and practice.In view of the lack of open activity space,the lack of systematization,the lack of locality,as well as residents and workers’ demand for landscape activity space in the old town and under many constraints,the unique advantages and characteristics of pocket parks are used to plan and design the area as well as to improve the landscape system according to local conditions.Then the theories and methods summarized above are used to plan and design pocket parks to verify the accuracy and practicability of the subject research.Through this planning and design research and practice,it can be verified that pocket parks are beneficial to solve the problem of lack of public green space in old towns,and they have great potential for development.