Aging in Place，Non-zero Sum Game: Improves life quality and living conditions for aged people who “Aging in Place”, through the renewal and reconstruction of public spaces system in diverse scales

The density of elderly population in Central City of Beijing is relatively high compare to that in peri urban area, which resulting in the urban disease, scarcity and low quality of public spaces in the city center. However, in Beijing, the main demands of elderly people have incline to the social needs and social participation, instead of...

Gated Community in Suburban Beijing: relation between spatial-functional structure and urbanity

Gated communities are recognized as a global phenomenon. During a long period of urban development, gated community becomes the most widespread Chinese residential type. It is usually surrounded by fast motor vehicle lanes, therefore lack of social connection with surrounding areas. And due to the few connection, the streets out of gated...

Legacy strategies for future Olympic host cities

Research consists of an intensive literature study of five preceding summer Olympic Games and an in-depth case study of the London 2012 Olympics. In all cases the legacy-planning during the process is analysed and evaluated by making use of a strategic model. In the end the lessons learned from preceding Games and London are converted into...

Renaissance of Cultural Identity-historic districts regeneration in Beijing inner city

The graduation project titled ‘renaissance of cultural identity-historical districts regeneration of Beijing inner city’ aims at researching the question about the role of cultural identity in the historical cities, specifically it is about testing and investigating proper ways to regenerate the historic districts in inner city of Beijing, in...

Low Income Graduates Friendly City: Social and spatial integration for low income graduates in periphery area of Beijing

This is the graduate project focus at social and spatial integration of a group of people called “low income graduate” in China who are now has sever housing issue. And in this project the strategy mainly brought up an alternative land development model to research and finding solutions.

Old Beijing New Life: Climate Adaptive Urban Regeneration in Old Beijing Center

The site Dashilan is the most sever UHI area of Beijing currently. Located in the center of Old Beijing, it is consist of historical courtyards with flourish old brand commercial and many cultural heritages. High density (15m2/house), almost fully covered by concrete without enough green space, make this area really have a bad living quality and...

Seeding Centrality: Organic upgrading urban rural syndicate in South Beijing

The ongoing urban plans and designs in China may have provided an improper model of making cities. They do not consider the complex nature of city and take little into consideration of the welfare of people. Then, the question comes, what is a proper model of building cities? A city serves as a receptacle of life. There are various lifestyles co...

Modernizing Beijing

By modernizing the city, Beijing is upgrading to a higher level of prosperity. At the same time though we see the reverse side of a global development, the interventions in the city ruin parts of the city by destroying its traditional architecture, in particular the traditional hutong-areas, which are one of the main characteristics of this city...