Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas

Characterization, Typology and Design Research

Yuting Xie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-19-0757-9 (ISBN)

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This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.D. thesis, and concrete practice in China, Germany, and the Netherlands. This research adapts the existing methods of Landscape Character Assessment (UK), Historic Cultural Landscape Elements (Germany), and Dutch Polder Typology to mapping, describing, and classifying landscape character areas and types at the three scales of regional, municipal, and local. Furthermore, to connect research with design, we developed a typological approach of generating specific measures for the networked polder landscape. This research bridges the gap of a missing landscape characterization method for the conservation, transformation, and critical reconstruction of historic cultural landscapes in a metropolitan context. The book is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the topics of cultural landscape in transition, methods for landscape characterization and typology, and a research-by-design approach in interdisciplinary projects of landscape architecture, urbanism, and regional planning.

Dr. Yuting Xie received her M.Sc. degree in Landscape Architecture from Peking University, China, in 2011, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Landscape Architecture from Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2017. Since March 2018, she has been in the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang University as a lecturer. She is currently the director of China Urban Landscape Lab at TU Munich, which dedicates to managing landscape changes and to developing historical landscape structures as a qualitative framework for China’s rapidly transforming urban environment. In 2019, she co-founded a collaborative research platform-Jiangnan Lab, using regional design as a tool for bringing cross-sector spatial planning, landscape architecture and urban design and multi-level governance together in the Yangtze River Delta megacity region in China. Since 2012, she has published 11 peer-reviewed technical papers in books, international journals and conferences. Since 2011, she has been the principal investigator of six international research projects both in China and in Europe. She was a recipient of Best Innovation Award at the 2020 Suzhou International Design Week for the exhibition of her Jiangnan Park project and two Excellent Paper Awards at the 2020 China Landscape Architecture Education Conference. She was also awarded the Excellent Instructor for several competitions such as the "Yuanye Cup" International Competition for College Students in 2020 and the "Xiaoxiang Cup" Landscape Architecture Design Competition in 2018.

Acknowledgments.- Summary.- Forward.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Chapter 1 Setting the Scene.- Chapter 2 Building the Research Context.- Chapter 3 Permanence and Resilience: The Framing Role of Landscape Architecture.- Chapter 4 Landscape Characterization and Typology: In Search of Methodology.- Chapter 5 Time, Space and Cultural Landscape: Morphogenesis of a Metropolitan Delta Landscape.- Chapter 6 Landscape Characterization, Typology, and Research-by-design.- Chapter 7 Conclusions and Discussion.- Appendices.- Appendix A Other Relevant Tables.- Appendix B Glossary of Chinese Terms.- Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Urban Book Series
Zusatzinfo	65 Illustrations, color; 45 Illustrations, black and white; XXIX, 206 p. 110 illus., 65 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	Cultural Landscape • Green-blue Infrastructure • landscape character assessment • Landscape Characterization • Landscape Planning • Landscape Typology • Polder Landscape • research by design • Yangtze River Delta
ISBN-10	981-19-0757-9 / 9811907579
ISBN-13	978-981-19-0757-9 / 9789811907579
Zustand	Neuware