Sustainable design in urban renewal: a case study of waterfront landscape shared infrastructure of Shanghai, China

The rational design of a micro-renewal strategy provides an effective and green method for balancing the requirements of rapid development and the limitations of existing resources in urban renewal. Currently, although the conception of the sustainable design has been widely introduced in most urban micro-renewal projects to reduce various environmental loads, few of them have applied to construct practical landscape infrastructures in a cost-effective manner. In this contribution, a micro-renewal case of waterfront public service facilities in Shanghai, China has been analysed, for discussing possible solutions for the versatile implementation of sustainable designs in landscape facilities renewal in an affordable fashion. In the analysed case, two representative models are defined and demonstrated for the applications of the sustainable design strategy to improve the urban ecology environment and meet the needs of citizens in daily life. The first model is the architectural-view model, which includes a variety of fundamental space layout design and architectural construction methods, such as green materials, low-carbon constructions, and energy-saving management. The second model is the human-centered care model, which includes the requirements of reading, communication, parent-child, and other humanfriendly space from a citizen's point of view. The analysed results will be beneficial for beating current design barriers in practical construction of a sustainable urban community and stimulating new social innovations on green landscape infrastructural design in the future.