Some people say that "life is half Qinqi calligraphy and painting, half firewood, rice, oil and salt"; Some people also say that "life is half poetry and distance, half human fireworks". In real life, urban people who are busy for firewood, rice, oil and salt yearn for a home where they can rest their bodies and minds. The pocket park that came into being meets this desire of urban people, using corner land, fragmentary land, idle land, etc., to create an oasis in the reinforced concrete city, which not only meets the needs of surrounding residents to relax and relax after busy work, but also improves the city's ecology and living environment, giving a warm "sense of home" to the rapidly developing city.
In the planning and construction of Qingpu New City, pocket parks are used as the entry point to make "green" closer to the people, so that residents can "open the window to see the green and push the door to enter the park". And combined with the history, humanities and water village customs of Qingpu, let the people taste culture and remember homesickness in addition to leisure and entertainment.
After years of construction, these pocket parks with different characteristics have become an indispensable part of the people's lives, and they have appeared in large numbers in the new city, dressing up the city and covering the happiness of the people. Let the distance be within reach, let the poetic dwelling no longer be imagined.
The "kidney" of the city, your "happiness garden"
In addition to purifying water quality, storing floods and preventing drought, and regulating climate, wetlands in cities also have various ecological functions such as improving the urban environment and maintaining urban biodiversity, so they are known as the "kidneys" of cities.
Qingpu New City is built by water, and the rivers in the region are crisscrossed. Large or small rivers run through the city's high-rise buildings, making the new city have both the beauty of the city and the charm of the water town. In the process of river management, some abandoned wharves, cluttered tidal flats, and urban villages have been transformed into small wetland parks, becoming a unique waterfront landscape of Qingpu New City.
The Ruxin Park on the east side of the Gangyu Road Bridge on the north bank of the Caogang River was transformed from the original urban village. Although the park is small, the park is crisscrossed with water and land, islands and floodplains with different shapes, and various trees, flowers and wet plants are scattered in between, which is a typical river-type wetland park layout. The wooden boardwalk on the water and the fitness track on land meander to connect large and small water-friendly platforms, and there are also water pavilions and post stations on the platforms for residents to rest.
Not far west of L'hotel Park is Morningside Park, also located on the north bank of the Caogang River, the same layout of a small river-shaped wetland park, except that the pond here is full of lotus flowers. Every summer, green lotus leaves fill the pond, and the pink and white lotus flowers stand during the period when the so-called "blue and red flowers, white sand and green ripples". It attracts a large number of citizens to check in and enjoy the flowers.
Similarly, Xiangxue Park, a wetland park converted from an abandoned cargo terminal. The park is located on the planned Art Island, at the intersection of the Huancheng River and the Dianpu River, bordered by Laozhuqing Road to the north and Gangyu Road to the west. The garden is lush with trees, abundant water and grass, and has a post station, tea room, waterfront pier and cruise ship pier. In autumn, the trees fall and the autumn leaves fill the garden, which is picturesque. Egrets fly low on the surface of the lake, wild ducks play in the water, and everywhere is full of wild fun. Walking through it, it is like walking into a wonderful ecological picture.
Grasping the regional characteristics of water towns, combined with the improvement of urban rivers, the distant wetland landscape is loaded into the "pocket", which not only improves the ecological environment of the city, but also meets the needs of citizens to "open the window to see the green, push the door to enter the park". These wetland parks have gradually become "happy gardens" for residents to relax, exercise and relax.
Source: Green Qingpu