Exploring Association between Morphology of Tree Planting and User Activities in Urban Public Space; An opportunity of Urban Public Space Revitalisation

3rd International Conference on Energy Equipment Science and Engineering

Shen, Qi^1 ; Liu, Yan^1

Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, Western-Bank

S10 2TN, United Kingdom^1

关键词: Activity duration;    Brown fields;    Industrial city;    Mature trees;    Public space;    Sheffield;    Tree plantings;    User activity;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/128/1/012054/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/128/1/012054

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper discusses the association between the morphology of tree planting in urban riverside brown field and user activities. With the growth of popularity, the revitalisation of urban public space is also promising. This research used drone photography and mapping to systematically surveys sample sites. An original observation study of user activities proceed in four sample public spaces in Sheffield. The study results found there are huge popularity and duration difference of user activities between various tree planting morphologies and typologies. The public space with lawn and rounded by mature trees attracted most users with the most activity types; the neat and silent public space is the favourite choice of lunch and reading, meanwhile it got the longest activity duration; but the space with sparse morphology and small trees are more likely be forgotten and abandoned. This finding offered a great opportunity for urban public space revitalisation in post-industrial cities.