城市老公园改造老年人活动空间规划设计

改造城市老公园,使其环境优美宜人,满足老年人休闲、散步、驻留、娱乐和冥思的空间需要.从老年人的感性需求出发,关注老年人的视力模糊、目光迟钝、听力下降、警觉力和记忆力衰退、动作迟缓等行为特点;以老公园改造户外景观环境的人性化、弥补性和可持续性设计为出发点,对城市老公园老年人活动空间的设计理论基础进行研究与分析,提出城市老公园创造老年人的老幼和乐、休闲、娱乐、冥思和庭院主题的设计构成要素,从而为老年人创造温馨舒适、安宁便捷的城市老公园休闲娱乐场所.     

城市规划理论课研讨式教学改革路径探讨

研讨式教学已成为我国高校教学改革与发展的重要方向。城市规划理论课具有综合性、专业性和应用性强等特征,开展研讨式教学十分必要且具很好的适用性。文章在国内外研讨式教学研究与实践进展评析基础上,分析当前城市规划理论课研讨式教学现状特征与问题,进而明确城市规划理论课研讨式教学改革的基本思路与目标定位,提出亟待改革的关键领域与路径对策,即改进师生角色定位与师生关系、优化教学目标与内容体系、创新教学组织模式与方法、改革成绩考核和创造实施条件等,为我国城市(城乡)规划教学改革提供指导和参考。     

着力完善培训机制提升高校师资素养

本文针对高校现有师资培养方面存在的不足提出一些建议,希望完善培训市场,建立起规范科学的培训机制,通过培训使高校的师资队伍整体素养得到提升,能更好的为国家经济建设培养出优秀的人才。     

城市社区户外文化活动场地研究——以天津市17个社区为例

城市社区文化活动的户外场地是社区文化建设的重要内容和物质载体,本研究有针对性的选取天津市17个典型社区的户外文化活动场地进行分析。在实地调研的基础上,分析了社区居民户外文化活动类型、特征,归纳总结了居民对社区户外文化活动场地的需求及社区户外文化活动场地存在的问题,进而从规划设计、使用维护和管理两大方面对城市社区户外文化活动场地进行深入系统的分析研究,并提出相应的对策建议。     

Parental Caregivers' Desires for Lifetime Assistance Planning for Future Supports for Their Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Future life planning is a growing concern among families with children with disabilities. This article presents a needs assessment evaluating feasibility of a new model for future life planning for family caregivers, Lifetime Assistance, which will provide ongoing planning and monitoring for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Using surveys informed by a series of focus groups, data were gathered from older and younger parents in one midwestern state regarding the potential program. Study results indicate that respondents did not feel the current system of support was adequate for planning for their child's future, nor sufficient for monitoring the quality of life for their children in the future. Although almost all families had identified a person to support their family members when they were no longer able to do so, parental caregivers overwhelmingly identified the need for the Lifetime Assistance program and many were willing to pay for this service themselves.     

Nonprofit Management Principles and Practice,by M. J. Worth

A qualitative case study of two urban neighborhood-planning processes contributes to knowledge regarding citizen participation in the context of public housing redevelopment. The data were collected and triangulated from multiple sources including participant observation, field notes, artifacts, and 24 hours of semistructured interview data (n = 26). Data provided context for understanding engaged residents’ and professionals’ experience of participation in a Resident Advisory Council (RAC) and influence during neighborhood redevelopment planning. Study participants reported the benefits of inclusion in the RAC community planning process including: (a) being engaged by attending meetings and dialoging, (b) maintaining and building relationships, and (c) maintaining organizing pressure and fighting back.     

A Call for Field Coordination Leadership to Implement the Signature Pedagogy

This article presents an overview of how social work leadership skills can assist field coordinators to implement the signature pedagogy in their schools. Although this call has been made before, no other article has described specific planning steps to implement this initiative. This work fills a distinct void in the literature about this subject. The main assumptions are that (1) schools must adopt and clearly operationalize field education as their signature pedagogy and (2) field coordinators need to lead this initiative. We provide field coordinators and schools with recommendations about how to lead this important and necessary organizational paradigm shift. The article addresses social work leadership, developing a more field-centric curriculum to operationalize the signature pedagogy, shaping a school’s culture to embrace this important and required initiative, and offers suggestions to proactively plan this process.     

An Effective Adoption Education Program That Can Be Replicated

ABSTRACT

The article details the creation, development and organization of a public adoption education agency. Founded in 1986, Adoption Option, Inc. has become a catalyst for a broad array of adoption education activities in Southwestern Ohio. These activities center around a three-step education initiative which targets three groups: (1) people who have direct contact, and a counseling role, with pregnant women/teenagers and their partners and families; (2) adolescents who are being schooled in family life, sexuality and health programs; and (3) the general public. The three program areas for carrying our the agency's mission are: (1) a training program for individuals who counsel and assist women and teens with unplanned pregnancies which provides factual information about adoption and how to present it in a non-directive way; (2) educational programs to put adoption into school-based health curricula aimed at students ages 12-18; (3) a media initiative to convey accurate information about adoption. The agency and its successful programs can be replicated by individuals who are interested in making their communities more adoption-literate and adoption friendly.     

湖南省规划环评与经济社会发展规划审视

随着《中华人民共和国环境影响评价法》的颁布和施行,我国规划环评作为一种战略环评得到了法律的支撑。在此历史背景下,湖南省的规划环评工作也正式启动,并成为“绿色湖南”建设的一个重要组成分。规划环评对优化被评价的规划已初显积极作用,这些规划大多考虑到了对生态环境的影响。但是,规划环评的范围还有待拓展,规划环评的质量还有待进一步提升。要实现建设“绿色湖南”的目标,在制定湖南经济社会发展的下一个五年规划时,必须将包括规划环评在内的战略环评作为一项重要的环保政策确立起来,并将之置于法治理念的引导下;同时,在开展规划环评的过程中,有关部门要更加自觉地贯彻其对于规划制定的“早期介入”原则,强化其对于规划制定的“过程控制”,使规划在政府规划决策过程中发挥切实有效的作用。     

对绿道规划中几个问题的探讨

绿道规划和建设在我国已经起步。结合国内绿道规划理论和实践中存在的一些模糊认识,探讨了绿道功能复杂性、绿道规划的性质与目标、绿道空间尺度与规划层次、绿道规划技术指标等绿道规划中涉及的四个基本问题,期望有助于我国绿道规划理论的探索和实践。