吃力不讨好,但仍要去做的Green当代艺术展

9月的北京,正当大家把目光的焦点放在上海当代博览会的时候,北京也展开了一场平民级消费的艺术博览会,这是区别于针对高端的艺术收藏人士所设计的艺术博览会,中艺博与航美传媒首次在北京建立Green Art Fair平台以"买得起"的价钱汇通具有消费潜力的白领和鲜活具有能量的年轻艺术家,这么良好的立意与开拓新兴市场的美意,还多亏了金融危机,让人对于艺术市场与博览会的有别样的定义与反思。     

Water in the city: Green open spaces,land use planning and flood management – An Australian case study

With increasing worldwide recognition of the influence of urban development on the hydrological functions of water, there is growing pressure for urban planning to play a greater role in water resources management. Planning for green open spaces in particular can play an important role, as they support important ecosystem services, including those that assist in flood management. It has been argued that interconnected and strategically planned networks of green open spaces should be planned for early in land use planning and design processes, with consideration of water-related ecosystem values and landscape functions in concert with land development, growth management and physical infrastructure planning. Although there is growing recognition of the importance of green open space planning for water sensitive cities and supportive planning measures, there are few analyses of the actual inclusion of this recognition in plans and strategies, or the presence of related actions and planning mechanisms. This paper addresses this gap by comparatively analysing the approaches taken to regional green open space planning in three Australian capital city-regions. Findings indicate the acknowledgement of relationships between flood regulation and green open space planning and various associated planning mechanisms. However, there is limited explicit integration of flood management and green open spaces planning, and significant on-ground barriers to enabling this integration to occur given the legacy of past planning decisions and the lack of information to support implementation. The paper concludes with recommendations for further research to assist planning for green open spaces as an ally to ecosystem services relating to flood management.