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Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

author:Xinmin Evening News

Nanchang Road, new internet celebrity!

The overgrown street corner has been slightly updated into a shared reading garden, which has become a favorite living room for citizens and tourists. Recently, at the Forum on Theories and Standards of Sustainable Development in Cities and Communities and the Annual Meeting of the Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association, Zhong Lu, vice president of the Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association and chief engineer of the General Institute of Shanghai Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute (Group) Co., Ltd., said that micro-renewal has stimulated the vitality of the community, created more shared new spaces, and promoted the sustainable and high-quality development of the city.

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore
Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

2021 Shanghai Urban Space Art is underway

Located on Nanchang Road in Huangpu District

It has also become an Internet celebrity punch card line

On this small road with a length of about 1.6 kilometers, the Landscape Institute of the Shanghai Municipal General Academy of Municipal People's Government has adapted to local conditions, activated micro-governance, built a "small, spiritual and live" embedded block micro-renewal, connected the green space along the street, and created Tagore Reading Garden, Xunfang Garden, Wei Garden, Flower Wall, and Ground Carved Imprint, forming a "humanistic flower street" connecting streets, life, literature and art.

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Walk on Nanchang Road

Small surprises can be found everywhere

At the intersection of Maoming South Road and Nanchang Road

There is a corner garden, the Reading Garden

Just opened to the public

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

In the garden there is a bronze bust of Tagore

It turned out that Tagore had visited Shanghai three times

He temporarily lived in Lane 136, Nanchang Road

——The accompanying translator Xu Zhimo's home

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Today, the fence of the corner garden has been demolished

The garden walkway and walkway are seamlessly connected

Several bookshelves are embedded in the middle of a row of glass-view walls

A row of stools sits on the side for pedestrians to rest

Within easy reach

Create a touch full of humanistic color

Exquisite reading space

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Nanchang Road opposite the Nanchang Building

The Garden of Seeking Fangs has also been activated

Along the side of Nanchang Road

A miniature oval square was added

The flower pavilion in the square has become a punching point for Internet celebrities

Experiencers sit in the flowers and watch the pedestrians on the road

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore
Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore
Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore
Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

At the entrance of No. 163 Nanchang Road

There is a miniature green space for the Wei Garden

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Take advantage of the green space on the street corner

This will be done from time to time

Public facility adoption and donation activities

And do exclusive nameplate engraving

Adoption in the form of social donations

Guide urban management for the whole people to build and share together

Form a community hotspot corner

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Along Nanchang Road there are

Walls in many forms as well as building storefronts

These street interfaces themselves

It has a certain historical style and classic beauty

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Street view of Nanchang Road

Zhong Lu introduced that the micro-update does not change the original appearance, it is recommended to reshape the small and micro space of the entrance courtyard, implant the external swing facilities outside the coffee shop along the street, add a variety of floral facilities, and place flower pots hanging on the wall, through such a series of measures to weaken the street boundary, create a micro-space along the street, and create a flower street atmosphere.

Urban micro-renewal is a continuous process, and the renewal also advocates the co-construction of social participation in the neighborhood, with the public green space of the neighborhood as the carrier, mobilizing professional forces, social organizations, and community citizens to participate in it. Stimulate the interest of street residents in loving green, planting green, and enjoying green, establish a long-term mechanism for community environmental services, and residents can also find a sense of identity and belonging in the community, creating a green and harmonious beautiful neighborhood.

Yikes! On this small road in Shanghai, meet Tagore

Located on Nanchang Road

Urban Art Microspace "AD Hub"

At the forum, Professor Zhu Dajian, President of Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association and Director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Management of Tongji University, took the decoupling strategy of urban development and land consumption, energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, transportation and automobileization, and production consumption and waste growth as the starting point, and depicted a reliable path for China's green development in the new stage.

Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association

The Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association is committed to the high-quality development of Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta and China, based on the Shanghai sample, condensing Shanghai wisdom, telling the Chinese story well, and making substantial contributions to the realization of the global sustainable development goals.

Gao Guihua, executive president of the Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association, introduced that the purpose of the Shanghai Sustainable Development Research Association is to build a professional, interdisciplinary and strategic research think tank to carry out research on sustainable development in four dimensions: Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta, China and the world.

The study will benchmark the global urban sustainable development goals, build a sustainable development knowledge center for five outstanding cities in Shanghai, New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, systematically summarize and track the best experiences and practices of the five major cities, and collect them into a book and publish them to the world every year; actively participate in the compilation and publication of the United Nations "Shanghai Handbook: Guidelines for Urban Sustainable Development in the 21st Century"; and work closely with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to promote a number of international standards for sustainable urban and community development. National standards and group standards continue to implement the National Standardization Development Outline.

Gold Coast Studio

Author | Yang Yuhong

Picture | Courtesy of interviewees

Edited | Beam group

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