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Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This open access book traces the development of landscapes along
the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first
infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road
Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of
2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and
intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the
development and conservation of these landscapes, this book
provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing
for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and
implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It
complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization
frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of
the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent
"firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked
endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first
planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and
accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design
professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue
with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social
sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable
contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development,
including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos
and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this
book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated
through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking
in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to
development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and
ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with
the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on
the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement
of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such
as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture,
with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental
NGOs.
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