Bøger af Kongjian Yu

Climate change poses challenges for human survival and societal development, including frequent urban disasters such as high wave and urban waterlogging, as well as extreme weather events such as sea level rise, floods, tropical storm, wide-range drought, and high temperature in polar regions. Contributed in part by reducing greenhouse gas emission, and also by the means of improving local resilience, the international community have been working on mitigating the uncertain impact of climate change. Against the backdrop of carbon reduction policy such as Carbon Emission Peak and Carbon Neutrality proposed by Chinese government, regional sustainable progress inevitably calls for resilient strategies for human settlements that address local issues upon climate change adaption and resilience theories. Since the impact of climate change on human settlements, risk and resilience assessment methods, and spatial and technological strategies have already broadly studied by international academia, more attention should be taken into research on spatial planning, urban design, landscape design, innovative engineering, emerging technology application, and interdisciplinary perspective to strive to realize the goals of peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. To this end, this issue expects to discuss the resilient strategies adaptive to climate change for improve human settlements at varied scales. Introducing international perspectives, LA Frontiers encourages the bridging the latest research outcome with application and practice.

As the key to sustaining health of river basins and improving livability for a city, water ecosystem can provide rich ecosystem services supporting human well-beings. However, traditional techniques of gray engineering have resulted in negative impact on water ecosystems, directly or indirectly, exacerbating problems such as water shortage, water body pollution, water ecological damage, and water culture loss. Scholars attach more and more importance to the research on water ecosystem restoration based on a holistic perspective. Water ecosystem restoration theories have also seen a development from structural studies on rivers, lakes, and wetlands towards holism studies on water ecosystems by exploring related impact factors, restoration processes, scales, mechanisms, and models. In turn, associated restoration practices provide evidences for further theoretical exploration, among which nature-based approaches to water ecosystem restoration has become important measures to respond to the complex challenges of natural-social-economic systems and to enhance the overall water ecosystem services. At present, scholars have worked on extracting restoration modes, patterns, and techniques from traditional ecological wisdom (e.g., traditional agricultural terraces and dike-ponds) for contemporary practices, which have witnessed sound ecological and social performance. However, under pressures of intensified climate change and the increasing need for water resource utilization, research on the related responses and performance of water ecosystem at different scales remains insufficient. The goals and methods of water ecosystem restoration are often unclear, and long-term monitoring or evaluation of restoration performance is also inadequate. In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on: 1) Exploring nature-based water ecosystem restoration theories rooted in locality; 2) Studying the adaptive mechanisms, key design parameters, and ecosystem services of traditional ecological wisdom; 3) Combining traditional ecological approaches with contemporary water ecosystem restoration technologies, and the methods, practice processes, and optimization mechanisms of enhanced design; And 4) the research on the analysis, test, and evaluation of water ecosystem restoration performance of nature-based approaches at different scales. Water ecosystem restoration requires a dynamic and complex nonlinear workflow, which faces many problems and challenges. This issue, by presenting latest research and cutting-edge practice cases worldwide, is expected to introduce nature-based water ecosystem restoration insights and methods which are rooted in locality and can enhance restoration performance, and new measures for performance research and operation test, so as to inspire new research and practice for urban and rural water ecosystem restoration and sustainability.

LA Frontiers focuses on re-examining the man-land relationship, which asks planners and designers to better understand the persistent landscape by comprehending land systems and landscape characteristics, in order to maintain the integrity of the landscape and ecosystem, and respect the regionality and locality. Text in English and Chinese.

This issue hopes to interpret and display the treasured qualities of urban wildernesses and inspire landscape architects to strike the balance between urban wildernesses and human settlements via ecological planting methods that facilitate natural evolution and ecological flows.

In this issue, LA Frontiers explores the implications of human desires on public behaviors through cross-disciplinary lenses of philosophy, social psychology, cognitive science, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, history, etc.

In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on the topics about urban governance and spatial quality improvement under the promotion of inventory planning and governance refinement.

In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on prototype studies by examining those traceable and repeatable landscape theories, methodologies, and pedagogies, and introducing the knowledge from allied disciplines to inspire knowledge innovation, with a particular highlight on the prototypes adaptive to future uncertainties.

Urban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children s physical and psychological health, particularly in cities.

This issue focuses on exploring the significance of territorial spatial, strengthening research on related methodologies and techniques, analyzing and learning from diversified efforts, exploring feasible approaches, and encouraging applications of research frontiers.