Guangzhou plans to add 800 community parks and street parks.

Guangzhou plans to increase 800 community parks and street parks, highlighting "small but beautiful" and "small but refined"

I don't know if you have noticed that many miniature parks have quietly appeared in the streets and villages of Guangzhou. According to the Special Plan for the Construction and Protection of Parks in Guangzhou (20 17-2035), our city plans to build 828 new parks in the near future, including 800 community parks and street parks. The draft of Guangzhou Urban Master Plan (20 17-2035) depicts the prospect of Guangzhou's urban construction in 2035, in which green space construction will be an important livelihood project that will affect the quality of life in Guangzhou.

What are these small parks called pocket parks like? The reporter of New Express recently visited and found that although the park is small and exquisite, it highlights "small and beautiful" and "small and refined". Different parks have different characteristics, and their location and functions are mysterious. Even the flowers planted in the park are carefully designed.

Yuexiu District plans to build 10 pocket parks this year.

"In 20 19, Yuexiu District plans to build 10 pocket parks." According to Zhou, an engineer of Guangzhou Yuexiu District Construction Water Affairs Bureau, Yuexiu District has successfully carried out pilot construction in Fazheng Road-Yuexiu North Road, Donghu Road-Yongsheng Shangsha and Nonglin East Road, with a total area of about 1 000 square meters.

Pocket Park, also known as pocket park, was first developed in the United States in the 1960s. It was rebuilt by using some idle and abandoned sites in the city, mainly to increase more small parks for rest and activities in the community. Pocket Park is characterized by small scale, simple function, flexible location and high frequency of use. It is a small green, comfortable, relaxed and safe space.

Zhou said that Yuexiu District has initially formed a pocket park construction model with five elements of convenience and leisure, historical inheritance, night lighting, sponge city and characteristic garden, which is suitable for Yuexiu District.

The small park even considered rainwater treatment.

The three pocket parks built in Yuexiu District are small in area, ranging from 300 square meters to 1000 square meters, but they are diverse in form and simple and applicable.

The reporter of New Express recently visited Yongsheng Shangsha Pocket Park and saw that it was close to a bus stop, with a large flow of people. "We seamlessly connect the park path with the walking path, thus widening the sidewalk behind the bus stop and improving the traffic experience for pedestrians and passengers getting on and off." Landscape designers told reporters that during the planning and design, they deeply analyzed the citizens' activities and traffic demand around the site, focused on optimizing the citizens' traffic experience, rearranging the entrances and exits, garden roads, broadening the space for pedestrians and activities, combing the layout of green vegetation, and configuring leisure seats and other convenient service facilities as needed to improve the utilization rate of the park and create a green leisure space at home.

The construction of Pocket Park also uses the concept of sponge city, adopts the construction of concave green space, organically combines landscape construction with rainwater treatment, and realizes the treatment of infiltration, stagnation, storage, purification and drainage. Yongsheng Shangshakou Park lowered the elevation of the park's green space, and set a concave pebble beach water collection point at the entrance, using green space and pebble ditch to form a sponge, and retaining the original big trees to naturally form a "small green island", so that rainwater can be buffered and digested to the maximum extent in the park. Fazheng Road Project skillfully uses the terrain elevation difference to create a degraded grass ditch and dry stream landscape that runs through the whole park, beautify sponge city facilities, take grass ditch as a catchment ditch, guide rainwater to buffer and permeate through Shi Jing and dead trees, and store water and drain through pebble beach to relieve the surrounding drainage pressure.

The flowers in the pocket park are also very particular. According to the characteristics of regional habitats, each park has designed a special flower and several flowering plants in different seasons, such as Lingxiao, Bird of Paradise, Peach Blossom and Impatiens in New Guinea, which are "small but fine" and have their own characteristics.

"We are a garden and a fantasy." According to the landscape engineer, the characteristic flowers in Fazheng Road, Yongsheng Shangsha and Nonglin East Pocket Park are Lingxiao, Bird of Paradise and Peach Blossom.

A stool and a wall in a small park have cultural origins.

Where is Pocket Park built? The reporter of New Express visited and learned that the pilot selection of this project gives priority to areas with relatively concentrated historical culture and historical sites. For example, Fazheng Road is surrounded by Guangdong University of Political Science and Law, Zhan Jia Garden, Guangzhou Ancient City Wall Site and zhenhai tower. Yongsheng Shangsha has rich historical and cultural resources such as Donghu New Village, Xinhepu Historical Complex, Dongshan Lake Park, Xu Guangping's former residence and Guangjiu Railway Station.

Yongsheng Shangsha Pocket Park chose the history of Donghu New Village as the theme of historical and cultural inheritance. Donghu New Village was built in 1980s. Its appearance has created many firsts in China: the first pure commodity residential project in China, the first residential project developed by introducing foreign capital, the first residential district with property management, the first residential district with telephone in Guangzhou, and the first residential district with public facilities as the main construction, creating a precedent of paid and limited land use. It is worth mentioning that the artistic bench in this pocket park is designed from the shape and color of the Jiuqu Bridge in Dongshan Lake Park, while the hollowed-out landscape wall is designed from the concept of fair-faced brick wall. In a word, Pocket Park has cultural origins everywhere.

The micro-transformation of the community has created the neighborhood square in the community.

Xiwandong Community Cultural Square, located in Guangya Road, Xicun Street, Liwan District, Guangzhou, is a street park, which is located in the middle of three old staircase buildings and is triangular. Fitness equipment is installed here, and the elderly exercise here in the morning and evening. This small park has also been turned into a red education base, and some party building community activities are often held.

"In the past, weeds were overgrown, mosquitoes were breeding, and the community was detoured. Now the environment has become elegant, and people walking nearby have become happier. " Ms. Fu, a nearby resident, told the New Express reporter that she had lived here for 10 years and watched the changes in this small park. Nowadays, the ground in the park is flat, bright and clean. Old people and children like to sit and walk in the small park in their spare time.

The person in charge of Xicun Street in Liwan District introduced that the old city has limited space. This small park is just a thorn in the side, only two or three hundred square meters, which was rebuilt on the original site. In the past two years, Xicun Street has incorporated this small park into the micro-transformation of the community. According to the opinions of the masses, we first solved the outstanding livelihood problems, cleared weeds and hardened the ground; Secondly, provide more activity facilities for residents, and increase the party building propaganda gallery of "Do not forget your initiative mind, keep in mind the mission" to make it a party building position in Xicun area.

With the continuation of community micro-renovation, five street parks will be built in Xicun Street this year. These "Neighborhood Squares" will serve as the link of neighborhood relations in the community, and will be built into neighborhood cultural squares with the theme of scholarly community, volunteer service, family style theme and fire-fighting theme leisure park, with different themes of community's unique cultural construction, including four communities near the subway Xicun station, Guangya community and Changle community. According to reports, these small parks are currently under construction and are expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Maximize aesthetic feeling through artistic design

A survey by the reporter of New Express found that the pocket park in Guangzhou has a high "face value" because it adapts to local conditions, makes full use of the natural landscape and maximizes the aesthetic feeling through art design.

Art Park is located at the easternmost end of Ersha Island in Yuexiu District. It used to be an abandoned parking lot and a closed Asian Games passage. It has dense trees, impassable roads, outdated facilities and few pedestrians, which can't meet the needs of citizens' leisure activities and urban landscape, in sharp contrast to the open green space at the western end of Ersha Island.

Therefore, Guangzhou Forestry and Landscape Bureau upgraded it. Nowadays, the art parks are basically transparent, and visitors can put the "small waist" into the lens no matter where they stand to take pictures. In addition, it is also the best viewing spot to enjoy landmarks such as the West Tower and the East Tower and the night view of the Pearl River. Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the beautiful scenery on both sides of a river. Mr. Sun, a photography enthusiast, said that the art park is very suitable for shooting. No matter people, buildings and scenery, it is basically 360 degrees without dead ends.

The reporter of New Express visited and found that on the basis of the shape of "diamond", the Art Park built a diamond-shaped grassland and planted three lawn plants with different colors and textures, forming a distinct and interesting grassland; Taking "Pearl River Water" as a link, three kinds of colored stones are used to make a large civic activity square, which is organically connected with the rhombic grass slope, connecting the approaches No.4 and No.5 of Haixinsha with the north and south sidewalks of Ersha Island.

In addition, the lawn is "cut" with glass, and under the glass are colored lights. "At night, colored lights' cut' the lawn into a huge organic diamond. Shooting from the air with drones is very effective. " Mr. Sun said that the art park looks full of jewels.

■ Coordinator: New Express reporter Deng Yifu ■ Written by: New Express reporter Deng Yifu, Li Yinghua and Xie Yuanyuan.