Activities-Centered Participatory Community Design: Shoupa Community Service Station Rooftop Renovation Plan

Abstract

This paper first provides an overview of the urban regeneration process of Beijing since the1970s, with a focus of the shift from material promotion to historical cultural preservation and sustainability promotion over the years, and a highlight of the contemporary trend of redesign of community public space, which has attracted considerable attention in recent years because of the commendable efficiency of land utilization and the activities-centered diversified forms of community participation. Then, based on an advanced planning orientation and renewal project in Beijing, this paper describes an urban regeneration process carried out in Beijing that aimed at experimenting with a creative approach to the design and regulation of complex urban land use. Specifically, a real urban renewal project on the Shoupa Community Service Station Rooftop is described in detail, which demonstrates a promising approach to activities-centered community space design involving spatial, graphic, and cyber aspects.