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Yuexiu District of Guangzhou adheres to the concept of green development
Integrate into urban and rural planning and construction management
Continue to promote the construction of urban landscaping
Fully excavate abandoned land, corner lots, streets and alleys, etc
Fragmented space potential
Adapt to local conditions
See the seams and insert green, dismantle the illegal green, and vacate the green
A large number of citizens can walk, see, and touch
A new pocket park was completed
Gradual implementation
Push the window to see the green, walk in the shade, and go out into the garden
Yuehua Road Pocket Park
According to statistics, 57 pocket parks have been built in the whole region, with a total area of 59,200 square meters, with a per capita park green space area of 5.68 square meters, and a park green space service radius coverage rate of 92.1%.
Daxin Road Pocket Park
Increasing efficiency with greenery
Tap the potential of "small space" functional value
Yuexiu District fully investigates and demonstrates, solicits opinions from various parties, sorts out and integrates idle green space, micro space and other resources, gives priority to the planning and layout of areas with dense population, strong willingness of the masses to build, and insufficient service radius coverage of park greening activity venues, and organically combines the construction tasks of micro-transformation of old communities, functional relief of old urban areas, and water environment treatment, and reasonably arranges different types of pocket parks such as community-based, commercial, and transportation-based.
Futong Street Pocket Park
By adjusting the amusement park route, optimizing the layout of facilities, improving functional facilities, etc., the activity space is broadened, and the greenway and blue road weaving and connecting the green space network are connected, so as to enhance the continuity of the landscape space, build a pocket park system with balanced distribution, perfect functions and distinctive characteristics, and gradually realize the beautiful vision of "300 meters of greenery, 500 meters of garden, and 10 minutes on foot", and strive to make up for the shortcomings of large-scale comprehensive parks in the city.
State Guest House Pocket Park
Extract with green
Rejuvenate the vitality of "micro-ecology".
Yuexiu District follows the environmental characteristics and topographic conditions of the waterfront, the roadfront, and the near community, pays attention to the protection of natural ecological backgrounds such as large trees, old trees, and vegetation, adheres to the principle of "suitable trees in the right place, and scientific greening", gives priority to native plants such as osmanthus, sweetgum, and Hainan dracaena, and comprehensively considers the climatic characteristics, growth characteristics, seasonal changes, maintenance requirements and other conditions, and reasonably selects different types of trees, shrubs, and ground cover for collocation, such as duck's foot wood, peacock wood, and feather cranberry velvet and other shade-tolerant and moisture-tolerant plants in the shade, and kapok in the sunny place, Sanssouci tree, frangipani and other sun-loving and drought-tolerant plants.
The use of group planting, flower landscape and other configuration techniques to create a high and low, dense and dense plant level, presenting the landscape effect of flowers in spring, shade in summer, leaves in autumn and sunshine in winter, enhancing the interest and vitality of green space, rejuvenating the block environment, and effectively enhancing the overall image of the city.
Benefiting the people with green
Promote livability and happiness for all ages
Yuexiu District fully considers the needs and usage habits of different groups of people, and embeds humanized elements such as rest, recreation, sports, and barrier-free, such as increasing space for exercise and rest for the elderly, creating communication space for young people, adding seesaws, slides, swings and other amusement facilities for young children, and designing barrier-free, safe and humanized facilities for the disabled.
Zhusigang Pocket Park
Pocket parks are endowed with a variety of functions such as neighborhood socialization, urban living rooms, and public service stations, so as to meet the functional needs of a good ecological environment and the masses for rest, viewing, and fitness, effectively improve the quality of life of the masses, and promote the formation of a new model of community governance of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing.
Write in green
Pay attention to the inheritance and development of "Cantonese culture".
Yuexiu District pays attention to cultural people and morality, selects blocks with more concentrated historical culture and historical sites, refines the essence of culture, and organically integrates local cultural elements such as the tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty, Guangdong Fazheng School, and Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Station into the landscape design such as topography, landscape wall construction, sculpture sketches, and atmosphere lighting.
Panfu Road Pocket Park
- For example, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Memorial Park recreates the scene of Guangzhou-Kowloon Station by laying rails and sleepers, displaying old-fashioned steam locomotives, and restoring the old railway platform;
- Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial Park has set up a commemorative statue of Mr. Lu Xun, Lu Xun's "Weeds Inscription" and other excerpts of the scenery wall.
Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Memorial Park
The pocket park tells the story of Yuexiu in a way that the masses like to see, awakens the memory of the city, becomes a carrier of historical context and modern cultural inheritance, and enhances the cultural identity and sense of belonging of the masses.
In the next step, Yuexiu District will always adhere to the principle of people first, give full play to the social and ecological value of pocket parks, take public participation as the foundation, take "people's city and people's construction" as the core essence, and build more pocket parks that benefit the people according to local conditions through urban linkage and government-enterprise cooperation, so as to effectively improve the livable and happiness index of the urban area and continuously improve people's livelihood and well-being.
Source: Yuexiu District Forestry and Garden Bureau Photography: Huang Jian, Dong Junyi Editor: Dong Junyi Proofreader: Jiang Jintong Editor: Liu Siming Editor: Zhan Pingping