In recent years, the form of Qingdao's "park city" has become more and more perfect, with parks with different characteristics constantly emerging, enriching the urban space and outlining patches of green spaces for rest in the fireworks of the world. In 2024, Qingdao plans to build another 140 pocket parks, 21 comprehensive parks (community parks), and 35 boulevard corridors. At present, 8 parks have been completed and opened to the public, providing citizens with more good places with ecological, humanistic and life values during the May Day holiday.
1. Liuqing Park
Laoshan District Liuqing Park is located at the entrance of Liuqing River in Laoshan Scenic Area, and is open to citizens and tourists free of charge. With the natural advantages of backing on green mountains and facing the sea, the park with a total area of about 22,000 square meters has quickly become a new Internet celebrity check-in place in Laoshan District. On the basis of the original natural ecological environment, Liuqing Park has added a bar with a wide line of sight, so that citizens and tourists can enjoy the sea breeze while enjoying the sea view. There is also an adventure zone that children will love, and there are a variety of non-powered facilities such as climbing balance slides, and a variety of swings are nicknamed "Swing Freedom".
2. Ningguo Road Pocket Park
Ningguo Road Pocket Park is located at No. 12, Ningguo Road, Shinan District, which was originally a barren slope, with a large height difference, and long-term problems such as dirty and messy, the construction of the park is based on the theme of "spring flowers and autumn fruits, fruity slopes", planting peaches, pears, apples, persimmons, cherries and other fruit trees, optimizing the garden route, through the design of barrier-free ramps, adding handrails on the side of the road, realizing the passage of the road, establishing a leisure activity space, meeting the needs of the elderly, allowing residents to go out of their homes, enhancing the vitality of the residential area, and making the community more warm.
3. Core screen pocket park
The core screen pocket park is located in the west of Huantai East Road, south of Huantai South Road, and east of BOE Park, Wangtai Street, West Coast New District, with a total area of about 20,000 square meters. Combined with the congestion of surrounding roads and the lack of parking spaces, the construction of "park + parking lot" multi-functional landscape green space, improve the land use rate, solve the difficulty of parking, and bring new experience to the citizens with the concept of "park +".
4. Navy Road Stormwater Park
The Haijun Road Rain Garden Project is located in the east of Haijun Road and the north of Lidao Road and South University 11th Road, covering an area of 9,800 square meters, which is an important part of the restoration and comprehensive management of the coastline of Guzhenkou. As an important node of the coastal tour route of Haijun Road, the rain garden fully integrates the concept of sponge city, and effectively realizes the natural accumulation, natural infiltration and natural purification of rainwater through the shaping of shallow and concave green space. While enriching the tourism resources of Guzhenkou, it provides tourists with a new cultural experience and natural sightseeing place by setting up a popular science landscape wall. While enjoying the natural scenery, tourists can also feel the cultural charm of Guzhenkou Naval City.
5. Lixian Middle School Pocket Park
Lixian Middle School Pocket Park is located in the D2 group of the Sino-German Ecological Park south of Tuanjie Road, Hongshiya Street, West Coast New District, north of Kunlun Mountain Road, with a total area of about 2,000 square meters. Before the update, the plot was a wasteland, but after the update, the plot was built with greening, squares, garden roads, fruit boxes, rest seats, fitness equipment, smart service facilities and other infrastructure, gathering 15-minute living circle functional formats, building a 5-minute convenient living circle and home system, and striving to create a zero-carbon livable, enjoyable, walkable, educational, moving, raising, and friendly park.
6. Hengfeng Pocket Park
Hengfeng Pocket Park is located on the northeast side of the intersection of Hengfeng Branch Road and Shoufeng Road in the West Coast New Area, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters. Hengfeng Pocket Park, through the confined space grooming, has carried out micro-investment and micro-transformation, improved the urban park construction system, enriched the slow traffic system, and turned an almost abandoned street green space into a good place for people's leisure activities.
7. Xuejiatan Pocket Park
Xuejiatan Pocket Park is located on the west side of Fenghuangshan Road (Moon Bay Road - Lingshan Bay Road), covering an area of about 7,600 square meters. In the strip plot with a width of only 10 meters, a point-like activity space is arranged, which is connected with the sidewalk, which is convenient for pedestrians to stay and rest for a short time, and at the same time serves as a multi-functional activity venue to provide fitness, leisure and communication for surrounding residents. Based on natural planting methods, combined with cherry blossoms, begonias, elm leaves and other spring flower plants planted in groups, to create a municipal green belt landscape full of spring flowers, so that people can feel the beauty of vitality and romantic life in the blink of an eye.
8. Phoenix Mountain Pocket Park
Phoenix Mountain Pocket Park is located in the east of Phoenix Mountain Road, the green space on the west side of Shanxing Garden Community, and the entrances and exits of each community divide the entire ribbon space into six sites. The length of the site is about 630 meters from north to south, and the width from east to west is about 20 meters, covering an area of 12,555 square meters. In order to meet the needs of the surrounding people, the children's playground is combined with an active business atmosphere in the crowd gathering space, activates the life, commercialization and service of the park, and boosts the vitality of the surrounding community.
In addition, Shinan District relies on the style and characteristics of Badaguan Historic District to create a long-term flower landscape with rich seasons and natural sustainability. The construction of the flower landscape is mainly carried out around the two central lake areas of Cuihu Lake and Jinghu Lake, and is designed in combination with factors such as tourists' viewing routes, understory light conditions, and plant growth habits. The plant selection is mainly based on local perennial root flowers and ornamental grasses that are suitable for growth, strong tolerance, low cost and low maintenance, forming a long-term flower environment with rich layers, continuous flowering period and endless growth, showing the natural attributes and vitality of perennial plants. Relying on the cultural atmosphere of "eight passes and sixteen rhymes" in the whole scenic area, the cultural landscape and the natural landscape complement each other, and an elegant and quiet landscape garden quietly blooms.