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Urban Planning in Catholic University of Louvain, first casted the question ―Can
landscape save Asian urbanism?‖ She provided a global perspective on urbanism:
its challenges and solutions, which set the stage for the landscape approach to
urbanism. Charles Waldheim, professor of Landscape Architecture, Director of
Harvard Graduate School of Design and also the founder of the term Landscape
Urbanism, gave a thorough interpretation of the term: its meaning, history and
development. Frederick Steiner, professor of architecture in University Texas at
Austin and Bart Johnson, associate professor of Landscape Architecture in
University of Oregon made systematic explorations on ecological planning and
design in the context of global warming and environment crisis.
They aimed to seek the landscape urbanism and ecological urbanism approach to
bridge the gap between the big global issues and the local urban design solution.
Besides academic exploration, design practice of the Landscape Urbanism theory
was also presented and shared in the conference. Beyond research and design
practice, Landscape Urbanism in terms of management was also discussed. Shen
Lei, from Tianjin Urban Planning office and Dr. Wang Lin, from Shanghai Planning
and Land Management, gave a comprehensive management analysis from the
nation scale to the city scale.
In the conference, two forums were held apart from the keynote speeches. One was
the Design Practice Forum which discussed how higher education and the
Landscape Architecture industry could cooperate appropriately and were mutually
promotional. And the other was Higher Education Forum, which mainly talked about
the relationship between landscape architecture higher education and the labor
required in the rapid urbanization process. The National Landscape Architecture
Graduation Design Exhibition was held along with the conference and 450 student
graduation projects from 128 Chinese universities were on display at PKU library.
The two-day conference achieved great success, promoting the development of
Landscape Urbanism in China and fostering international communications on
landscape education.
Reported By: Han Yafei
Edited By : Seren
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