Inclusive City, a concept of urban development proposed by UN-Habitat in 2000, can be interpreted as the citizens, regardless of wealth, gender, age, race, or religion, can equally take advantage of the opportunities provided by the city to participate productive activities. The New Urban Agenda further proposes that "cities for all are a common vision for a better and more sustainable future." The National New Urbanization Plan (2014-2020) of China also emphasizes that people-oriented and fair sharing are the primary principles of new urbanization, where the equalization of basic public services is critical. Therefore, in the context of the ever-increasing disparity of urban social environment, children and the elderly are the vulnerable groups in realizing social fairness and justice of a city.
To create diverse urban scenes for all-age citizens, this issue pays attention to the special needs of vulnerable groups for urban spaces and explores more age-friendly and inclusive urban construction plans.
截稿日期
2022年4月20日
专刊主题发起人
同济大学建筑与城市规划学院
董楠楠副教授，汤湃博士
学术指导执委
北京大学建筑与景观设计学院 李迪华副教授
同济大学建筑与城市规划学院 陈筝副教授
香港大学园境建筑学系 姜斌副教授
第四期
总第58期
跨境景观本土化
Provincializing Transnational Landscape
关键词
跨境景观；景观思想；空间生产；本土化
Keywords
Transnational Landscape; Landscape Idea; Production of Space; Provincialization
Transnational flows of landscape ideas play a key role in international landscape development. On the one hand, they carry theories, aesthetics, and technologies, across national borders to promote the evolution of landscapes. On the other hand, they connect to socioeconomic opportunities, political structures, or cultural practices to reconstitute social relationships, and, through landscape sites, manifest themselves in the physical transformation of spaces.
This issue calls for articles that examine the provincialization process of transnational landscape ideas. Articles are expected to address how landscape ideas cross geographical, political, economic, language, and cultural borders and adapt to local conditions and exert influences. Contributions could focus on the following four cross-cutting domains:
1) Operation approaches, dynamic mechanisms, processes, ideas, and technologies of provincializing transnational landscapes;
2) Cultural, economic, political, and social impacts, as well as the production of space of provincializing transnational landscapes;
3) Provincializing transnational landscape in contemporary planning, design, construction, and historical heritage conservation practices;
And 4) research on the garden history and landscape architectural historiography by adopting a perspective of provincializing transnational landscape.
截稿日期
2022年6月20日
专刊主题发起人
挪威奥斯陆大学文化研究与东方语言学系 张亦弛研究员
学术指导执委
加拿大多伦多大学 蔡哲铭博士
浙江农林大学风景园林与建筑学院 鲍沁星教授
第五期
总第59期
生态系统文化服务与景观实践
Cultural Ecosystem Services and Human Behaviors
关键词
生态系统文化服务；人类行为；社会变化；福祉；景观设计
Keywords
Cultural Ecosystem Services; Human Behaviors; Social Changes; Wellbeing; Landscape Architecture
Demographic and social changes, such as urbanization, technology development, social perception updates, and shifts of aesthetic preference, have deeply altered ecosystems in urban and rural areas, influenced human behaviors, and reshaped the man-land relationship. It is vital but also challenging for landscape architects to understand the cultural benefits provided by ecosystems and how humans interact with the environment.
Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), a category of ecosystem services, denotes the intangible benefits and spiritual wellbeing provided by ecosystems for humans. CES are in forms of nature-based recreation, aesthetic experience, spiritual cognition, inspiration, and more. Ecosystem service theories have already been employed to guide planning practice. Exploring human behaviors from the perspective of CES can help landscape researchers and practitioners better understand human behaviors, and cope with the challenges from the changing human-land relationship.
In this issue, we aim at looking into the theoretical and methodological implications of CES. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
1) Assessing and mapping CES with innovative methods;
2) CES and wellbeings for different social groups;
3) The spatial-temporal dynamics of CES and its impact mechanism;
Landscape Architecture; Topography; Mapping; Site Construction; Place Design; Grading; Digital Analysis of Terrain; Scenario; Situation; Trace; Process; Experience; Feng-Shui; Interdisciplinary Study; Design Methodology; Teaching Program
Perceiving, understanding, and operating site terrain are not only fundamental for landscape architects, but also a core issue in landscape construction practice. However, cultural perception is absent for so long in traditional Topography developed from Geography due to its excessive emphasis on technology, often leading to a misunderstanding that equals terrain design to elevation grading. In fact, topography, influenced by both natural and human power in the Anthropocene, connotes complex man-land relationships. We need to explore how the rich connotation of Topography can facilitate landscape design, and optimize related methodology and pedagogy research on planning, landscape, and architectural design.
Relevant topics of this issue include but are not limited to:
1) Identify the relationship between Topography and Geography, and probe into the significance and methods of expanding the research scope of Topography, while responding to challenges in the education and construction practice of landscape design;
2) Understand how topography can be perceived, interpreted, and designed, and the types and scales (both spatial and temporal) of topography;
3) How can topographical research stimulate landscape imagination? How mapping and other perception or representation methods can influence landscape design and update public awareness?
And 4) how to integrate needs of design teaching, training, and construction practice on the basis of the study on ideas and material in landscape design by addressing specific problems in site construction.