{"title":"Exploring the spatial attributes of streets in Lu Xun’s hometown of Shaoxing, China, through image semantic segmentation","authors":"Qingyuan Hong","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1736","url":null,"abstract":"Image semantic segmentation, a deep learning algorithm, enables the recognition of pixel collections that form distinct categories, allowing for the identification of vehicles, pedestrians, traffic signs, pavement, and other road features. In urban and architectural design domains, image semantic segmentation and related techniques empower practitioners and researchers to efficiently analyze the distribution of public spaces. This application facilitates a better understanding of how people interact with urban environments, ultimately improving the design of functional and inviting spaces. This paper presents an analysis of images of different streets within the Lu Xun Heritage Area in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, China, which were obtained through onsite photography. The images were sampled, segmented, and compared to assess the spatial characteristics of distinct street types. A self-trained semantic segmentation model based on the Cityscapes dataset and the PaddlePaddle framework was employed to statistically analyze space variations across various dimensions. This analysis contributes to a better understanding of historical street structure and provides insights into the integration of artificial intelligence in urban planning and design.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"3 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139383714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural landscape characteristics and zoning of traditional villages in Huizhou City","authors":"Jiaping Huang, Qihua Deng, Hao Liang, Jin Tao","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1311","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional villages and cultural landscapes harbor rich historical information, representing a crucial agricultural heritage. This systematic categorization of these zones is essential for scientifically identifying their distinctive characteristics and values, thereby focusing protection efforts effectively. This paper focuses on Huizhou City, a typical multicultural area, examining its rich traditional villages and cultural landscapes through a comprehensive index system covering four levels and 22 factors. To categorize the city’s diverse cultural landscape, K-means cluster analysis is employed, resulting in the identification of five traditional village cultural landscape zones, namely the northern mountain valley, the central plain of the Dongjiang River basin, the south-central plain of the Xizhi River basin, the southern coastal area, and the eastern mountainous hills. Each zone exhibits different spatial patterns and landscape characteristics. While this paper offers a preliminary analysis, future research should integrate advanced data analysis methods to comprehensively examine the cultural landscape to guide dynamic protection strategies and facilitate the adaptive reuse of traditional villages.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139157177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introducing Regenerative Architecture","authors":"Rachel Armstrong","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1882","url":null,"abstract":"The global-scale impacts of the Anthropocene have reached tipping points of order, resulting in the climate emergency. We are no longer able to carefully adjust our industrial practices to put this titan back into its box, and we must enter a new era of human development to meet our present needs. This involves restoring the living realm through bioremediating environments, enlivening communities, enriching soils, and rebuilding ecosystems as we live and work. The conservative net zero ambitions of “sustainability” cannot reverse our negative planetary-scale impact. A new approach to designing and engineering our habitats is needed. This introduction to the special issue on Regenerative Architecture takes a design-led approach to discuss how the practice of the built environment, through its imaginaries, materials, spaces, bodies, and technologies, can make a positive impact on the living world. Since we cannot solve the ongoing crises from within our present thinking, which has initiated and compounded our predicament, this special issue explores the work of regenerative architects who are urgently developing diverse and inclusive practices. These practices aim to transcend the habits, expectations, and blind spots that frame contemporary practices. Taking a radically experimental and inclusive interdisciplinary design approach, the emerging field of regenerative architecture is actively developing a range of new tools, technologies, models, experimental platforms, theories, buildable systems, and critiques for environmentally beneficial practices. The nature of this ongoing research is diverse and interdisciplinary, invoking new concepts and formats that search for ways of working with nature, both as a co-creator of places and as a net beneficiary of architectural interventions.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139001445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study on the residents’ housing satisfaction with condominium apartments in the urban area of Henan, China","authors":"Shaozheng Bian, Byungsook Choi","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1079","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to assess the satisfaction levels of condominium apartment residents regarding their housing and to identify potential improvements for apartment planning in Henan Province, a region characterized by a substantial population and rapid urbanization. To gauge resident’s satisfaction, a specialized condominium apartment housing satisfaction measurement tool tailored to the specific conditions of Henan Province, China, was developed. This tool was subsequently employed to conduct an online survey, yielding a dataset of 594 responses, which were subjected to comprehensive analysis. The results of the study reveal that apartment residents in Henan Province evaluate their housing satisfaction based on seven content factors (internal facilities, internal structure, indoor environment, complex characteristics, location characteristics, management characteristics, and economic characteristics). Notably, the economic characteristics category, which encompasses the comparison of management levels to management costs and the assessment of management costs, emerged as the most influential factor affecting overall housing satisfaction. Following closely were management characteristics, which included aspects such as hygiene, security measures, maintenance, safety management, and operational management. These findings highlight the importance of considering not only the physical environment but also the need for systematic guidance regarding management costs and practices related to life after moving into condominium apartments when planning the supply of apartments in Henan Province, China.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139214114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial scale plasticity of urban residential areas: Lessons from Shanghai’s model in response to COVID-19","authors":"Fan Yang, Zhigang Wei, Jiayin Wang","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1242","url":null,"abstract":"Shanghai’s measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2022 have attracted world-wide attention. The response to public emergency and pandemic in built environment has prompted a profound reflection in residential planning. This case study investigated an under-developed site located in Shanghai’s Huangpu River waterfront. Based on a site survey, interviews, the phased lockdown policies of different urban areas, and published data on the spatial distribution of infection cases, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of strategies for coping with different stages of epidemic spread at different spatial scales. In addition to ensuring the privacy of living quarters, our residential planning ensures the flow and social communication of people in different neighborhoods, achieving the resilience of local lockdown and flow. This study redefines the openness and reasonable scale of residential areas based on analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of gated and block residential areas facing pandemic. This paper analyzes the feasibility of a residential site plan based on the above conception, which has spatial scale composable features for the basic residential building groups. This study emphasizes that design should be considered to achieve the flexibility of spatial scale through the different assembling pattern of basic-living-space-unit.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132338712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Envisioning rural futures: Lishui and the Future Shan-Shui City competition","authors":"Leonardo Ramondetti","doi":"10.36922/jcau.0957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0957","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an international competition called Future Shan-Shui City: Dwellings in the Lishui Mountains, promoted by Lishui Municipality (Zhejiang Province) in 2020, and examines the three award-winning projects: Future Super Shan-Shui Park by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, A Symbiotic Urban Change by Olivier Greder Architects, and Prosperous Lishui by South China University of Technology and Politecnico di Torino. By investigating how policies are changing current planning activities, and how the themes raised and then addressed in urban projects, this contribution sheds light on the salient features of today’s development in Chinese marginal areas and provides the opportunity to discuss new visions for rural futures that transcend the Chinese context.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"224 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139349586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nannan Dong, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Yongnan Wang, Xinyue Chen
{"title":"Ecosystem service value evaluation method for local-oriented rural water ecological governance: A case study on Shuiku Village in Shanghai","authors":"Nannan Dong, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Yongnan Wang, Xinyue Chen","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1055","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystem service assessments play a crucial role in highlighting the importance of ecosystems in human life and guiding regional planning processes. This study examines the significance of rural ecosystems and their diverse ecological services, ranging from agricultural productivity to water purification and esthetic value. At present, the ecological restoration of rural riparian zones in China mainly relies on engineering standards as reference guidelines, lacking responses to surrounding land use patterns (including diverse ecological functional requirements) at the planning and design level. This paper proposes 17 assessment indicators for ecosystem services based on a case analysis of Shuiku Village in Shanghai. Through the evaluation of the supply-demand relationship of ecosystem services in the water network rural riparian zone, the paper suggests feasible restoration approaches based on a comprehensive evaluation of the ecological status to address the diverse needs of rural water ecosystems. The result indicated that using an ecosystem services evaluation framework can provide more precise analysis at a small scale.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"161 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139349665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the walkability of old city streets in Beijing from the perspective of application of Central Axis for World Heritage List","authors":"Xiaoyong Zhang, Changming Yu, Yue Gong","doi":"10.36922/jcau.1033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.1033","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2023 is a key year for Beijing’s Central Axis to apply for World Heritage List. As the social space of urban culture, the streets are the communication space between modern-day residents and living heritage. In the blocks applying for World Heritage status, the walkability of the streets has an important impact on the presentation of the scene, cultural exchange, and tourist guidance. Based on the perspective of Central Axis application for World Heritage List, this study attempted to provide updated planning suggestions for the improvement of street walkability quality. Focusing on the human scale, first, 13 objective indicators and three subjective indicators of the streets in the buffer zone were evaluated by semantic segmentation, virtual audit, Likert scale, and other methods, as well as by acquiring the latest street view. Pearson’s correlation analysis was used to explore the main factors affecting the walkability of the streets. The results show that 13 objective indicators such as street interface, street facilities and street style in space show a trend of gradual decline from the central axis to both sides. Buildings on the north side of Chang’an Avenue in Beijing’s Old Town better preserve the architectural style of the traditional hutong. The factors that were strongly related to the sense of security were the proportion of fences and the width of the street. The strongest correlation factor concerning comfort is the street aspect ratio, whereas the most important factor related to aesthetic perception is the degree of preservation of traditional features. Finally, the paper puts forward some new strategies, such as clearly distinguishing street pedestrian and vehicular functions, controlling green visual ratio to adjust street visual aspect ratio, and protecting traditional street pattern.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"947 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116435590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What we are studying when we are studying home: A book review of Home Beyond the House","authors":"Lingege Long","doi":"10.36922/jcau.0925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0925","url":null,"abstract":"Home Beyond the House takes Yanxia, a village of Han nationality in the Zhejiang province in southern China as an example, and explores the relationship between the local sociocultural factors and vernacular built environment in rural China, examining how its cultural traditions influence the physical, psychological, and social construction of home for people living in the rural area, to illustrate the home’s cultural connotations. Meanwhile, it offers solutions for sustainable development of the built environment, cultural diversity, and social life in rural China under globalization and modernization processes. China is undergoing rapid social transformation, and many aspects of rural society are changing drastically. Home Beyond the House may provide a worthy reference viewpoint on how to grasp and understand the trajectory of change and the future direction of rural China from the architectural perspective.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139351191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy manifesto: Principles for regenerative architecture, arts, and design","authors":"Rachel Armstrong","doi":"10.36922/jcau.0862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0862","url":null,"abstract":"This viewpoint outlines the environmentally toxic view of energy that frames industrial modernism, which is fundamentally anti-life. An alternative, regenerative worldview is proposed, offering new ideals that are supposed to redesign the world by working in concert with the energies of the living world in ways that are fundamentally life-promoting. Centered on microbial metabolisms that form the living base of the biosphere, referred to as the microbial commons, the manifesto takes a decentralized approach to our engagement with energy so that diversity, resilience, and interdependence are valued through the commons of energies, which is powered by microbial metabolisms forming a substrate for regenerative design to enable the establishment of a vitalizing interspecies relationship with the earth, nature, and each other.","PeriodicalId":429385,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139351535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}