| With the development of social economy,population structure of the world has been changing accordingly.Aging population has become one of the serious problems people have to confront.Average age per people in China changes from less than 40 in 1950 to 71.8 in 2000.Thus,the country absolutely goes into an aging society in terms of the international standard.Excellent success in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 GuangZhou Asian games,coupled with the athletes' great performance,physical exercise is becoming popular in China recently.The elderly are eager to reach out to nature after the retirement with more free time and physiological and psychological needs.Therefore,doing exercises in sports parks becomes one of the best ways for their life.However,fewer researches on elderly activity space in city sports parks and some problems in designing and planning make it urgent to establish a better recreational activity space.Humanistic design of activity spaces for the elderly in the city sports parks is put forward in the paper initially.Based on the concern about the aging society and the development of domestic sports,the paper analyzes the elderly activity space.Six chapters constitute the paper.The first chapter consists of 4 parts:background,the significance,the purpose and literature review.In chapter two,physiological,psychological and behavioral characteristics are analyzed,on which the actual demands are raised.Chapter three summarizes the activity patterns systematically and then some designing principles suitable for the elderly are proposed accordingly.By doing a survey on environments and the elderly' opinions in such four sports parks as the city park in Dalian Development Zone,Hunhe sports park in Shenyang,Zhongshan parks in Shenyang and Youth park in Shenyang,the paper analyses the use of activity space and existing problems and then obtains the systematic data and graphic materials.Chapter five goes to design the city sports parks to satisfy the elderly's physiological and psychological demands and create more comfortable and safe spaces for the elderly to exercise and relax.Finally,research achievements,existing problems and overall planning for the future are discussed in the last chapter.China is a traditional country with a long history of respecting the elderly.With the changes of living standards and social developments,the elderly's needs for material and spiritual culture are increasing.Therefore,establishing the activity space for the elderly in the city sports park is intended to accept and encourage them to participate in the activities and thus reflect the social concern and tolerance for them.The study on the elderly' activity space in the city park can promote the humanity construction of the city park and it has practical value in adapting to the rapid development of aging population and provides the certain guidance to the related issues.As a designer and a worker who is going to step into the society to undertake responsibilities,all people are appealed to keep eyes on the elderly as well as their lives,which will be faced by all young people. |
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