What is the value of open neighborhoods?
When a new neighborhood in Beijing was completed, many people moved to their new homes, they had to face the fact that: although the walled community brings a sense of security, but can not bring with the surrounding environment - streets, stores, parks give a sense of community. Many neighborhood walls really isolate themselves from the community, and ultimately, they find that: the community does not provide a perfect service, to enjoy these services, they often have to go farther, to pay more time and energy; due to the sparse traffic in the community clubhouse, they may also pay more money for the purchase of daily necessities, while the property management company will also be for the property management fee is not enough to meet the pain.
Open neighborhoods out of the closed space
Today, new neighborhoods often have a wall, through the wall will be completely isolated from the outside world, but also outside the neighborhood noise, people (more to prevent thieves from strutting into the) stopped outside. In the district, the developer is a major selling point of supporting facilities, many developers hate not commercial, cultural, entertainment, sports, schools, but this creates a lot of problems: in order to the construction of these facilities, the price of the house to increase how much? In addition, in order to maintain these facilities for a long time, residents have to pay more money?
We seldom consider a sociological significance of the problem is: in the closed area of the children grow up, how they come to know the world outside the community, in order to spatial convenience, we must make them become "walled generation"? These children are destined to become "one-sided people" who grow up with TV sets due to the lack of social contact and interaction.
Perhaps to find reasons for the closed community, many people often mention a social stratification problem, many developers of high-grade neighborhoods, so not without complacency: the level of different communities is not the same. In an open society, the stratification of social wealth is inevitable, especially the rich and powerful class and the difference between other classes, but this stratification can be in the area, house type, materials, decoration and other aspects of the specific embodiment, rather than a wall can be resolved.
How many social resources do we have to sacrifice to satisfy "social stratification"? This is a question that needs to be discussed.
For a long time, we have been accustomed to the existence of schools, institutions and other compounds, in terms of service facilities, a large number of duplication of construction, due to the closed compound, these duplication of facilities are often not well utilized, and some even idle. Ironically: in the developers are uniformly to the full range of facilities to the club when the Beijing Municipality has not long ago issued a document, requiring the units of service facilities to the whole community open.
Opening up the neighborhood to allow residents inside and outside to **** enjoy
Fengtai's Zhuangwei Garden has come up with the idea of an open community, and the idea is not just to remove the formal walls. They first adjusted to the internal: the first and second phase of the original plan of the large community in accordance with the municipal transportation planning for the long term vertical and horizontal three roads are divided into four relatively independent residential parks, so that in the near future can be used for the exclusive use of the road within the district for the community to share. Externally, along the edge of the community in accordance with the living area of the three major functions of recreation and exercise, education and dining and shopping set up three functional neighborhoods, the formation of community residents and social residents **** enjoy the integration of the belt. In this way, the community and the adjacent Fengtai Park will be organically combined together, the exclusive road into an open leisure exercise, education and dining shopping of the three roads, the activities of the residents of the community space has been extended, the residents of the community can effectively interact freely with residents outside the community, creating a good community atmosphere.
And like the West Fourth Ring Road next to the Century City such a community, due to the building scale of more than a million square meters, tens of thousands of residents, in the community support, supermarkets, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and other facilities, the community around the corresponding facilities are too few, therefore, the community is likely to become the center of the community's residents and the surrounding residents of the center of life, and therefore has the "city" concept, the concept of "city". The concept of "city" is not wrong. But for the city of many smaller neighborhoods, there seems to be no need to emphasize the importance of the "clubhouse" and supporting facilities, which need to be carefully examined in the surrounding environment, to see what resources can be used. Zhuangwei Garden near the kindergarten, they only funded the expansion of the kindergarten, in order to solve the employment problem of the original residents, they modified the original planning of the relocation building Fengtai central market, but it will be turned into a store podiums mainly pedestrian commercial street, to attract brand-name stores and restaurants settled here.
Through the adjustment, the second phase of Zhuangwei Garden increased the area of green space and recreational facilities, improving the quality of the neighborhood. More importantly, the open-plan community because part of the supporting facilities open to the public, so that the property management company's income may increase, which may reduce the community residents of property management fees. In this way, the developer's shrewdness is shown in the utilization of the surrounding environment, developing not only houses, but also the surrounding environment.
Beijing people often miss the old Beijing courtyard houses, which are open internally, conducive to exchanges between neighbors; externally, they are often connected to the hutongs and streets, and travel is also convenient. There are stores and snacks on the streets, and sometimes you will meet old men selling candy canes. For children, they can enjoy a lot of childhood fun in the courtyard. However, urbanization is inevitable. Urbanization means an increase in population, and opening up neighborhoods can increase the usable area of the city.