Urban Village Renewal Based on Biophilic Urbanism Study--the case of Lijiao Guangzhou

In the past few decades,due to the lack of proper planning and construction, urban villages often accumulate many urban problems and become a hotbed of urban decay.With the convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the formulation of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the introduction of the Healthy China strategy, promoting the modernization of China towards harmonious coexistence between humans and nature has become an inevitable choice for development. However, the poor living environment and lack of ecological function in urban villages present huge challenges to this development prospect. Therefore, how to resolve these problems through effective urban village renewal methods has become an important issue. By reviewing relevant literature and cases, it can be found that the focus of urban village renewal is often on buildings, and research at the urban level is more focused on the economic and cultural fields, with relatively less targeted research on exploring natural elements for renewal. Therefore, more theoretical achievements are needed to guide renewal and transformation. Based on this, this paper attempts to explore how urban village renewal can move towards the theme of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature from the perspective of biophilic urban design, taking the public space of urban villages as the main research object. At the same time, the application of biophilic urbanism in urban villages is used as a supplement and application of this concept in the context of Chinese cities. Firstly, This article clarifies the current situation and problems of urban villages through literature case studies, summarizes the basic principles of biophilic urban design, and proposes the design methods of biophilic cities. It explores the possibility of combining biophilic urbanism with the renewal of urban villages and establishes a theoretical foundation. Secondly, based on the theory of biophilic cities, multi-scale transformation and renewal strategies are proposed for the current situation and problems of urban villages, including the construction of biophilic networks at the macro urban scale to integrate urban villages with the city's development, the organic demolition and construction of existing buildings at the community scale to create a more biophilic public space layout in urban villages, and the biophilic renewal design of the micro-site scale to provide people with a truly integrated and symbiotic natural living environment. Through these three scales of design strategies, a complete design and implementation path for the biophilic renewal and transformation of urban villages is provided. Finally, this article verifies the design strategies using Lijiao Village in Guangzhou as an example, starting from the current situation and needs of the villagers, and guided by the proposed renewal strategies, the urban public spaces inside and outside Lijiao Village are systematically updated and transformed to showcase the natural vitality of Lijiao, evoke people's innate emotions towards nature through the three-scale renewal, and make Lijiao a more biophilic and livable urban community. In conclusion, this article aims to expand and localize the theory of biophilic cities in the Chinese context, while providing practical design references with different research perspectives for the renewal and transformation of urban villages.