Designed ecologies : the landscape architecture of Kongjian Yu /
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[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Kongjian Yu's Challenge / Peter Walker
- Introduction: Ecology, with pleasure / William S. Saunders
- Popular aesthetics, public history / John Beardsley
- Value the ordinary: Zhongshan Shipyard Park, Zhongshan
- Fiascoes of Chinese urban development and turenscape's alternatives / Antje Stokman
- The big foot revolution / Kongjian Yu
- Go productive: the rice Campus of Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang
- The art field: North Grant Park, Chicago
- The boy who read books riding a water buffalo / William S. Saunders
- Make friends with floods: the floating gardens of Yongning River Park, Taizhou
- Reshape an urban waterfront: Yinzhou Central River transformation Ningbo
- Tread lightly: Red Ribbon Park, Qinhuangdao
- Regenerate surgically: beach restoration, Qinhuangdao
- Transforming a working landscape: Qinhuangdao Forest Park, Qinhuangdao
- The activist educator / Frederick R. Steiner
- Let nature do her work: the adaptation palettes of Qiaoyuan Wetland Park, Tianjin
- Gather people: Bridged Gardens, Tianjin
- Gather people: Long Sleeve Skywalk, Xuzhou
- Gather people: Dujiangyan Square, Chengdu
- Gather people: Chinatown Park, Boston
- Myths and strategies of ecological planning / Kristina Hill
- A green sponge for a water-resilient city: Qunli storm water park, Harbin
- Landscape as a living system: Houtan Park, Shanghai
- China's water resources and Houtan Park / Peter G. Rowe
- Reinvent the good Earth: National Ecological Security Plan, China
- (R)evolutionary ecological infrastructures / Kelly Shannon
- Let landscape lead urbanism: growth planning for Beijing, Beijing
- Begin with ecological infrastructure: Wuliji Eco-City, Wulijie
- Recover the mother river: Sanlihe Greenway, Qian'An
- Activate a resilient river: Minneapolis Waterfront Design Concept, Minneapolis
- Make architecture into landscape: low-carbon apartment, Beijing
- Make landscape into architecture: Hallelujah Concert Hall, Zhangjiajie
- Afterword: the persistent promise of ecological planning / Charles Waldheim.