title: [Urban habitants' attitudes toward nature-approximating landscape architecture: taking Hongshan District of Wuhan City, China as a case].
abstract: Nature-approximating landscape architecture (NALA) is a concept of sustainable development as applied to landscape architecture, while the urban habitants' awareness and acceptance of NALA idea is the key for the successful application of NALA. Through semi-structured interview, this paper explored the attitudes of the habitants in Hongshan District of Wuhan City toward the NALA design and management, and the influence of the social-economic characteristics of the responders on their attitudes toward the NALA. A fairly low percentage of the responders approved of the NALA design (10.3% - 46.9%) and management (7.4% - 34.9%). The attitudes towards NALA design were mainly affected by the responders' age, and the attitudes toward NALA management were significantly correlated with the responders' age, educational level, and profession. The efficient cause why a large number of responders did not support the NALA was that these responders attached importance to the aesthetic effect of green space, and preferred cleanliness and order. The lack of related ecological knowledge and environmental awareness was the root cause of the lesser support towards NALA. To establish NALA demonstration bases and to intensify the publicity and education of NALA idea and related ecological knowledge could promote an increasing number of urban habitants actively participating in NALA construction.
authors: College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China. yyp7461@sina.com
authors: Yu-ping
authors: YP
authors: Yang
authors: Zhi-xiang
authors: ZX
authors: Zhou
authors: Shao-ping
authors: SP
authors: Cai
authors: Kai
authors: K
authors: Gao
authors: Ruo
authors: R
authors: Jia
mesh_terms: D001108:Architecture; D001290:Attitude; D002681:China; D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning; D017753:Ecosystem; D004779:Environment Design; D006801:Humans; D011639:Public Opinion; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population