Outdoor Leisure Venues Planning And Design For Small Town

In recent years, China's urbanization process is accelerating,but outdoor leisure venues are increasingly disappear with the rapid development of Small towns,and worse it is not attract much attention and emphasis in construction of small towns.This article will on the comprehensive system study of outdoor recreation venues in small towns, by way of theory with practice, combining landscape ecology, landscape aesthetics, design psychology, urban planning and statistics relevant knowledge.The results are as follows:1. Surveyed Liling, Yanling, Jinggangshan(Ciping) and Yizhang these four counties,summed up the outdoor recreational site's characteristics and existing problems:Main characteristics:â‘ Small towns have a unique nature, ecological and cultural conditions conducive to the construction of outdoor recreational venues.â‘¡Small town residents are preferred to activity in bustling outdoor,the elderly like to talk,walk, Fitness-based, children prefer outdoor games.â‘¢Small towns dominated by agriculture, less industrial pollution, residents with high happiness index.The main problems are:â‘ The current outdoor leisure facilities of small town exist some problems such as less space,distance,large of service radius, facilities lack of maintenance etc..â‘¡Outdoor recreation venues not combined with local cultural and customs,so lack of urban characteristics.â‘¢The backward economic and develop-ment planning, as well as brain drain, traffic, location and so on was the main factors restricting the development of small towns.2. Made all kinds of outdoor recreational venues of small towns should be designed with the production, life and ecology combine,that's called"P.L.E." mode. And on the characteristics of various types of leisure venues,propose the correspond-ing design elements.3. Contrarily the status quo of Yanling, combined with "P.L.E." design concept, make the county outdoor venue overall layout and planned the various kinds of leisure facilities in detail.Recreation not only make people get to relax, improve sense of physical and psychological oppression, but also to socio-economic development. This study provides a theoretical basis that will guide the construction of small towns for "people-oriented" landscape environment, improve people's everyday casual lifestyle...