On April 12, 2013, at 4:00 PM, professor Lu Xiaobo, Dean of Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University chaired the themed forum of “public art and the urban development". Professor Sun Shan, Vice president of Shanghai City Planning and Design Institute delivered a speech entitled "thoughts on the enhancement of art quality in public space of Shanghai ". She pointed out that there are four main problems in Shanghai public space, firstly, is the inadequateness of quantity and area of public space, which makes the service radius is too large; secondly, most of the public space is not pleasant scale for human, and the facilities are insufficient; third is the art works and public space does not response the historical architectural elements and featured style of Shanghai; fourth is the art and design quality of public space in Shanghai has to be improved.
At present, the first thing we do is to make full use of the space; the second thing is to incorporate all-round carding on the historical building and old rare tree species into the management mechanism; third is to classify the neighborhood block as a unit, comprehensively promote the city renewal."
The concept of "new unbanization” has been proposed on the 18th CPC National Congress. However, the visualization of this concept has different paths in different city. New urbanization of Shanghai should pay attention to the connotation development, quality focus development, enhance the quality of the city, through the development of space and art to achieve the name of “Charming Shanghai”. |
