People's Online Hai, December 28 (Dong Zhiwen) Yangpu was once an important starting point for Shanghai's modern industrial civilization, since the second half of the last century, industrial renewal and transfer, living communities are seriously aging, the transformation of old areas has always been an important work of Yangpu. In recent years, Yangpu District has deeply implemented the important concept of people's city, promoted the penetration of both sides of the Huangpu River and the transformation of the coastal line of the riverside, and the Yangpu Riverside industrial "rust" belt has gradually been replaced by the life "show" belt.
Enhance the character of the city with cultural soft power
Culture is the soul of the city, but also the people's home, we must firmly grasp the root and soul of culture, highlight the unique "Shanghai culture", through enhancing the soft power of urban culture to retain Shanghai memory, enhance the city's character. Ge Hao, a young pianist from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, is a native of Shanghai who adapted a song "The Pier Trumpet" from his childhood memories of Yangpu.
Yangpu District is located on the Huangpu River, once shipbuilding, ship repair industry, water transportation industry is very prosperous. Along the Huangpu River, more than 50% of Shanghai's freight terminals were once concentrated. The voices of dock workers in labor gradually formed a labor song, witnessing the transformation of China's industrial history. In November 2019, the "List of Units for the Protection of Representative Projects of National Intangible Cultural Heritage" was announced, and the Dinghai Road Street Office was qualified as a protection unit for the "Shanghai Port Terminal" project.
Ge Hao played the adaptation on the spot, and called on the society as a young pianist in Shanghai to let the Huangpu River bank retain the "pier trumpet" and retain the memory of Shanghai Port. Let this Shanghai culture gradually transform into the soft power of urban development and further unite urban residents.
Create a new business card of the city with historical precipitation
Meilin Food Factory, Phoenix Brand Bicycle, Mifeng Brand Velvet Line, and Yangshupu Power Plant are all historical precipitations of Dinghai Road Street and are real historical wealth. Zhou Jianhui, deputy secretary of the Dinghai Road Street Party Working Committee and director of the office, said that as the pace of urban renewal accelerated, standing at the node of the old reform year, Dinghai people began to think about the future home.
"In the future, Dinghai will not only have new formats, new housing, and new business districts, but also new workers, living people and learners." She believes that in the face of new formats, new urban spatial functions, and new resident characteristics, Dinghai should find ways to retain the demeanor and temperature of the century-old Yangpu, constantly create a happier and more satisfactory life for residents, and superimpose historical negatives and create new business cards for urban homes.
Enhance resident interaction with space creation
The People's City must pay attention to the exchanges between residents and the participation of the people. Yu Hai, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, said that urban renewal in the past four decades has largely deconstructed the original acquaintance community, replaced by a gated community with relatively few residential areas and blocks, and due to the market differentiation of real estate, some new social and geographical isolation has been generated to a certain extent.
In order to address this problem, there is a need to create public spaces between settlements and to carry out activities that increase the well-being and interaction of the population, especially participatory community activities. The development of public spaces into social spaces with a variety of face-to-face interactions, drawing residents out of their atomic state from the outside, and connecting isolated community residents in new activity spaces, thereby enhancing interaction between residents and enhancing community cohesion.
Explore readability with architectural modifications
In the process of building a "people's city", Shanghai proposed to "make the building readable", by transforming the original old-fashioned buildings, giving them new cultural connotations, in order to get new uses. Professor Liu Enfang, a model worker in Shanghai, chief architect of Shanghai Architectural Design and Research Institute, and director of the Urban Design Committee of Shanghai Architectural Society, believes that Yangpu has preserved many pre-liberation workshops and "20,000 households" public housing in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, although these buildings have not been included in Shanghai's protected buildings due to the damage to the quality of housing and a large number of densities, but these buildings have retained the living memories of generations of Yangpu people, and efforts should be made to transform and recreate the humanistic factors and spatial sequences contained in the buildings to make them show new charm.
Aiming at the remains of industrial buildings in Yangpu, Professor Liu used the former work "Yangpu Fisherman's Wharf" as an example to illustrate the possible paths to revitalize the remains of industrial buildings and stimulate the meaning of urban public space.
The core of people's city construction is to enhance people's satisfaction with life, to create a pattern of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, and to make happiness for the people and make life better as a distinct theme of urban work. Yangpu deeply practices the important concept of people's city, makes articles on the 15.5-kilometer riverside shoreline, grasps important aspects such as urban culture, urban history, urban space, and urban architecture, gives play to the participation of the people, and jointly builds the people's beautiful home.