Coordination of Public Service Facilities and Greening in Residential Communities in Beijing

Abstract

The coordination of green space and public service facilities is of great importance in improving the spatial quality of existing residential districts. This paper adopts the method of a questionnaire survey to investigate the current cooperation between green space and service facilities in residential communities in urban areas in Beijing, China, explores the possibility of their coordinated development in residential areas, and puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for their collaborative transformation. The results show that the three types of facilities that residents thought should be coordinated most with green space were cultural and sports, educational, and social welfare facilities, while commercial service facilities were the most frequently used. Based on the survey results and considering the difficult degree of collaborative transformation of different service facilities and practical problems in implementation, three suggestions were put forward: (a) Differentiated hierarchical control strategies should be put forward for the collaborative transformation of service facilities and green space for different types of communities. (b) Urban planners should optimize the spatial layout relationship between green space and service facility land and pay attention to their functional combination, considering both spatial and functional coordination. (c) In the actual reconstruction, the residents' willingness to transform different public service facilities, the frequency of use, and the objective economic conditions of the community should be comprehensively considered, and the reconstruction should be carried out in stages according to the order of priority.