Trialism and Application of Human Settlement, Inhabitation and Travel Environment Studies (eBook)

Applications in Water-net Region

Binyi Liu (Autor)

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2023 | 1st ed. 2023
XX, 344 Seiten
Springer Nature Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-19-9143-1 (ISBN)

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This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 5 typical human settlement types: river valleys, water networks, hills, plains, and arid areas. Focusing on 3 elements of Trialism-(1) natural and constructed environments, resources, and visual landscapes in human settlements background; (2) survival strategies, customs, culture, and values in human settlements activity; and (3) the layout of time and space as well as the planning and design of the urban, the country, and the wilderness in human settlements construction-the book analyzes the evolution of human settlements and predicts future trends. 

Presenting academic researchers and graduate students in various fields with insights from landscape architecture, urban planning, architecture, geography, forestry, art, and psychology, the study discusses the principles of interactive physiological thinking and systematically theoretical philosophy related to professional physiology, planning and design principles, and traditional and modern methods and technologies in urban and rural construction. The innovative multi-discipline study promotes the planning and design of 5 types of human settlement, which is helpful to the judgment of value, activity rule, and living style of human settlements, and also discusses the development of human settlements in the new millennium.

Binyi Liu (1957-) graduated from Tongji University with a master's degree and a PhD. In 1989, he became the first person who got Ph.D. in landscape architecture in China. As the discipline leader of Landscape Architecture Department of Tongji for 26 years (1996-2022), he has made important contributions to the discipline construction and professional education development of Tongji University. As the First Convenor of the Discipline Assessment Group of Landscape architecture of the 7th Academic Degree Committee of Chinese State Council, he promoted the recognition of first-level discipline of landscape architecture and the modernization systematic construction of professional education. In 1992, he gave lectures in more than ten universities in the United States, promoting the exchange of landscape architecture education between China and the United States. In 1994, he was awarded the honorary life membership (the only Chinese) by American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). 

He is currently a landscape architecture professor in Tongji University, a landscape architecture professor and discipline leader at the Golden Mantis School of Architecture in Soochow University, a professor and doctoral advisor at the School of Arts and Humanities in Macao University of Science and Technology, the First Convenor of the 8th Academic Degree Committee of Chinese State Council on Landscape Architecture, and a member of the Expert Committee for the compilation of Chinese National Territorial Planning Outline (2021-2035). So far, he has cultivated 44 doctors and more than 190 masters in landscape architecture. He has published 16 textbooks such as 'Systematization of Landscape Engineering', 'Modern Landscape Planning and Design', 'Research Methodology and Application of Human Settlements', and more than 540 academic papers of various kinds. He has presided over the completion of 1 key project and 6 surface and youth projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation in China, and 1 project funded by Science and Technology Support Plan of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. He completed more than 200 practices of landscape planning and design, tourism planning, and urban planning in China. He wins special allowance of Chinese State Council, Huo Yingdong Award for Outstanding Young Teachers, Cross-Century Outstanding Talents Program of the Ministry of Education, Huaxia Science and Technology Progress Award, and many other awards. He has been approved to teach 3 national excellent open-access courses and 2 national first-class undergraduate courses. His independently-instructed MOOCS of 'Basic Principles of Landscape Planning and Design' has been published online via 'Learning Power' visited by over 1.4 million times.

About Translator:

Nan Wang (1984-) is Registered Certified Planner in China, and LEED AP BD+C. She gained her bachelor and master degree in urban planning from Nanjing Tech University and her doctor degree in landscape architecture in Tongji University when Prof. Liu Binyi was her doctoral academic supervisor, and also worked as post-doc in School of Environmental Science in Tongji University. She studied as exchange student in Design School of Taiwan Chaoyang Technology University, and visiting scholar in Department of Architecture of Columbia University. At present, she works as associate professor, master student academic supervisor, and dean of urban design sector in Department of Urban and Rural Planning in Nanjing Tech University with many publications and national funded research projects. She is a senior English-Chinese interpreter in over 15-year experience with more than 500,000 words translation works. Also, she is good at surfing and is an SUP coach certified by China Water Sports Administration with research interest in landscape architecture design, sports tourism planning, artificial intelligence and public health management.

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2023
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 344 p. 70 illus., 49 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Original-Titel: 人居环境研究方法论与应用
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Chinese Human Settlements • Chinese Settlements Philosophy • Environmental Ecology • Human Settlements Resource • Human Settlements Science • Landscape architecture • Life Style • sustainable development • Territorial Space • trialism
• ISBN-10: 981-19-9143-X / 981199143X
• ISBN-13: 978-981-19-9143-1 / 9789811991431