Research on age-friendly garden design in China based on the case study of WANSHOU Park

Chengyang Liu

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202128302007

Abstract

The rate of population aging has reached a high level in China that age-friendly design should be concerned when designing gardens in urban place. Although the generation-skipping guardianship phenomenon always exists in present situation of elderly people in China that grandchildren are taken with the elderly and are involved in their daily activities in most family, the needs of children are neglected in urban garden design. The paper generalized guidelines of age-friendly garden design according to LEED, Chinese garden design standard, and the guideline of global age-friendly cities in Europe. Childrenfriendliness have also been included based on the above-mentioned new guidelines. 29 reports have been collected in the case study of WANSHOU Park which can be characterized as an age-friendly garden involving basic information and scoring records on its environment and facilities. Through the increasement of children-friendly features and installments in the park, the design will have great potential to deal with aging problems.

Highlights

1.1 The severity of population aging in China (Beijing)
The judgement of an aging society is whether the population of elderly people over 60 years old is more than 10% of the whole population in a country or a region. (WHO) Chinese elderly people over 60 years old in 2016 were 0.231 billion and accounted for 16.7% of Chinese population, based on the date of population given by National Bureau of Statistics of China
The aging process in China can be generalized in 4 features: the largest number of elderly people, the fastest aging process, the greatest differences among elderly people, and the toughest task to solve the problem of aging [1]

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Introduction

1.1 The severity of population aging in China (Beijing). The number of elderly people in China in 2025 will exceed 0.3 billion by prediction. China is a developing country with the largest population in the world and the aging process is way too faster than the development of economy and society, compared to those developed countries. As a classic modern city in China, has its own particular issue in the aging process. The special distribution of elderly people in Beijing can be put into 3 regions. Wanshou Park was first built in Xicheng district, Beijing in 1617 and had been reconstructed respectively in 1995 and 2014, aiming to create a garden that is suitable for the elderly. Communities are situated near by Wanshou Park where the elderly are the major users. School and all variety of buildings for public service are sufficient around the circle of the community

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