From Building to Community: The Quest of Urban Eco-Community Development

從建築到社區：都市生態社區發展的探索

10.3966/101632122019120110009

Ya-Hsuan Wang；Stephen Siu Yu Lau

Ecological Community ； Urban Community ； Ecological Urbanism ； Sustainable Criteria ； 生態社區 ； 都市社區 ； 生態都市整體規劃 ； 永續發展標準

建築學報

110期_S期：創新低碳與綠建築專刊Ⅱ（2019 / 12 / 30）

21 - 31

英文

It is claimed that the present geological era should be renamed Anthropocene in order to a best-fit scenario how human impacts have reshaped the terrestrial ecology. One of the leading concerns of the Century is that of global urbanism, which encompasses the social, economic and environmental dimensions suffered by a rapid transmutation of habitations; plagued by an overuse of energy and resources, pollutions and carbon emission that menace the Earth. For the author, ecological urbanism can be regarded as a solution for the planetary crisis and threat. In essence, it means that people have to think carefully about how they conceptualize cities. Eco-cities, Sustainable Neighborhoods, Low Carbon Communities, Regenerative Buildings and are all specific forms of response to render our habitat more ecological. As the basic unit of cities, an urban community can be entrusted as an ideal module to progress from conceptualizing to operationalizing. In this respect, the aims of this study are to figure out: how to translate ＂ecology＂ as a solution for Earth, which is facing the struggle of an unbalanced growth in urban development? How to re- orient the community as a socio-ecological unit towards maintaining and creating a livable and sustainable homeland?.

據稱，現在的地質世代應該更名為人類世，以作為人類的影響力如何重塑陸地生態之註解。本世紀最主要關注的項目之一是全球都市整體規劃，其中包含了因住居形式的快速轉變所帶來的社會、經濟和環境等面向的議題；此過程中亦產生過度使用能源及資源、污染和碳排放等種種對地球不利影響的附加效應。對於作者而言，生態都市規劃可被視為解決我們的行星危機和威脅的方法。從本質上講，這意味著人們必須仔細思考他們如何將城市概念化。生態城市、永續社區、低碳社區、再生建築等等皆為人們欲使其居住地更加符合生態理念而所進行的發想。作為城市的基本單元，社區可以被用作為一個將理念化作實踐的理想模組。在此觀念前提下，本研究的目的為釐清：如何將「生態學」轉譯為對地球都市發展增長不平衡困境的解決方案？並且如何重新定位社區作為社會與生態兼顧的單元，以維持和創造一個宜居和永續的家園？

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