Modern International Park City and Ecological Civilization Education Practice: Taking Chengdu Tianfu Greenway As the Core
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ISSN 1712-8056[Print] Canadian Social Science ISSN 1923-6697[Online] Vol. 16, No. 9, 2020, pp. 28-35 www.cscanada.net DOI:10.3968/11896 www.cscanada.org Modern International Park City and Ecological Civilization Education Practice: Taking Chengdu Tianfu Greenway as the Core PENG Ou[a]; WANG XiaoJu[b]; GAO Xuemeng[c]; ZHANG Zhengbo[d],* [a] Ph.D., Lectrurer. College of teachers, Chengdu University, Chengdu, Modern Park City; Ecological Education China. Key words: [b]Vice President and Professor, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China. Practice; Environmental Aesthetics; Chengdu Tianfu [c]Current PhD student, China-ASEAN Art College, Chengdu University, Green Way; “Beautiful and livable park city” Chengdu, China. [d]Associate Professor, China-ASEAN Art College, Chengdu University, Peng, O., Wang, X. J., Gao, X. M., & Zhang, Z. B. (2020). Modern Chengdu, China. International Park City and Ecological Civilization Education Practice: * Corresponding author. Taking Chengdu Tianfu Greenway as the Core. Canadian Social Science, 16(9), 28-35. Available from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/ Supported by the Chengdu University’s 2019 Educational Reform Project “Innovative Practice in the Cultivation of International Artistic view/11896 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11896 Talents under the Co-construction of the “One Belt and One Road” Initiative-Taking the China-ASEAN Art College of Chengdu University as an example” When we talk about green way, the first thing people think of is the kind of green corridors, forest runways, Received 27 June 2020; accepted 19 August 2020 Published online 26 September 2020 and green linear corridors that line the towns and villages, historical monuments, temple towers, and the open linear space impression of the mountains and forests. Green Abstract way, as the name suggests, is a kind of activity space that In the comprehensive development of modern park provides a carrier for low-carbon life, green transportation city and ecological civilization education, Chengdu travel, and suburban tourism. It is marked by green lawns has gradually explored its own path with international and tree-lined promenades to meet people’s leisure, sports, characteristics. The positioning of Chengdu as a “modern outing and other functional needs. road system. According and beautiful park city” is an innovation proposed by to the definition of Charles Little in “American Green Mr. Xi Jinping in recent years. This concept not only way”, green way plays an important role in ensuring combines the geographical location of Chengdu with the urban functions, alleviating traffic congestion, improving regional characteristics of the western environment, but air quality, and improving the living environment. At the also highly respects the historical laws of the development same time, it is also a physical space link that connects of Chengdu’s Bashu civilization for thousands of years. town parks, nature reserves, places of interest and historic At the same time, it also absorbs Howard’s “pastoral sites, and high-density residential areas. city” dream and Mountford, the theme of Gedde’s Judging from the existing literature, the “green way” “Organic City Theory” has corrected the shortcomings thought can be traced back to Frederick Law Olmsted and of Le Corbusier’s mechanized functional space view and his 1857 Boston Park system planning and design practice. presented distinctive Chinese characteristics in theoretical The outstanding feature of the design plan is that he used innovation and the development of ecological civilization the green way to connect Franklin Park, Arnold Park, education. The outstanding performance is the organic Jamaica Park, Boston Park and five rivers together to form integration of the development of Tianfu ecological a 600-kilometer “jade necklace”. The green way extends civilization, the cultural education of Bashu and the like a city meridian running through the entire suburb of aesthetic design practice, the creation of the international Boston’s municipal district. The design of the “Emerald” brand image of Chengdu’s “three cities and three capitals” green corridor prolonged the achievement of Olmsted as a and the innovative practical experience results of the master of modern landscape design and park design. dream of “beautiful and livable park city”. Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture 28 PENG Ou; WANG XiaoJu; GAO Xuemeng; ZHANG Zhengbo (2020). Canadian Social Science, 16(9), 28-35 In the following decades, not only did all major achieved its reputation as a “garden city” in the world. states and counties in the United States begin green way Since the beginning of the new century, under the trend planning and design, but also they triggered a global of large-scale globalization of green way construction, green way planning and design movement in the 1960s large cities, industrial cities, and economic and trade and 1970s. More than 300 green necklace-shaped open open areas in China have begun to implement green way spaces have been built in London, United Kingdom, network construction. Wuhan Green way Chengdu Green which not only effectively solves the problems of heavy way, Changsha Green way etc. Among them, Chengdu smog pollution and traffic congestion in cities, but also Tianfu Green way began in the Autumn City Government’s fully protects the urban transportation, settlement, leisure, “Planning and Construction Plan for Chengdu Tianfu communication, consumption, experience and other multi- Green Road” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”) in functional circulation operations order. 2017. The global plan of the “Plan” is intended to form Germany has organically combined the construction a green ecological zone of “one axis, two mountains, of green ways with the transformation of the old city, and three rings and seven roads” with 1,200 kilometers of transformed the originally dirty, ruined, inefficient, and regional-level green roads, more than 5,000 kilometers heavily polluted Ruhr industrial zone into a beautiful, of urban-level green roads, more than 10,000 kilometers ecologically safe and livable urban area through the of community-level green roads, and a total length of vertical and horizontal green network. France has built nearly 20,000 kilometers. It is planned to reproduce the more than 150 green ways with a total length of more geographical grand occasion of the “Sichuan Prosperity than 6,000 kilometers, which not only helps the basic Map” by Li Gonglin of the Northern Song Dynasty framework of the European Union’s “green way network”, through the green function series planning of eight but also integrates the routine maintenance of green ways functions of ecological protection, slow traffic, leisure into the jurisdiction of road traffic safety regulations. tourism, urban and rural coordination, cultural creativity, Japan has used the green road’s “blood-making” and sports, agricultural landscapes, and emergency refuge. “lung-raising” functions to connect famous mountains The author was fortunate to participate in the creative and rivers, historical monuments and urban communities, planning of the Tianfu Jinjiang Green way and the design not only to continuously provide fresh air resources for of the Shu cultural landscape, which was accompanied residents, but also to create a green pure land away from by a very complicated negotiation process and also noise and restlessness. The construction of Singapore’s accumulated some experience. Here, I would like to share coastal waterfront greenbelt network also provides our creative experience with readers and friends, with a citizens with ample space for leisure, entertainment and view to the future Urban and rural green way design, or public interaction, and at the same time, it has effectively similar environmental design projects, provide reference texts for reference. Figure 1 The Millennium Picture Scroll Section East Lake Park “East Lake Free Boat” renderings 1. TIANFU Greenway DESIGN serves positioning that matches Chengdu as a national central city. If there is no overall positioning of Chengdu’s spatial AN international BRAND strategy development (“East Advance, South Extension, North FOR THE construction OF Reform, West Control and Central Optimization” has “BEAUTIFUL Livable PARK CITY” AND been determined), green channel ecological optimization, landscape beautification, Bashu cultural innovation and “THREE CITIES AND THREE Capitals” industrial and commercial travel layout layout The overall The design of the Tianfu Green way in Chengdu is a implementation will lack the integration and cohesion major issue that cannot be bypassed in the development of the concept, the lack of formal coherence and the of western cities. It should find a spatial strategic orientation of cultural content. 29 Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture Modern International Park City and Ecological Civilization Education Practice: Taking Chengdu Tianfu Greenway as the Core For example, people’s curiosity about Sichuan Opera’s cultural identity. In other words, from the collection of vomiting of fire and changing faces, the image of the external sensory information, to the coordination and facial makeup of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and other cooperation of inner touch, smell, taste and other senses, characters in the Three Kingdoms, the memory of Shu to the formation of aesthetic taste judgment and mental culture and the aesthetic psychology of the Emei school memory, symbol design plays