Beschreibung
This book introduces a ten-year long design research project in the context of 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 classification to mapping, describing and classifying landscape character areas and types at the three scales of regional, municipal and local. Furthermore, we tested this typological approach in design research projects, such as for one specific polder type, three transects within Taihu Basin and for the north river bank of the Yangtze River. 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 or regional context. The book is intended for graduate students, researchers and practitioners who are 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.
Autorenporträt
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 Chinas 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.
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