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There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and
scattering in rapidly urbanised and exceedingly industrialised
cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of
isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural
wilderness, urban wildernesses see similar community structures and
often offer similar services, with strong vitality and resilience.
However, such natural resources are often misunderstood or
overlooked as undesirable places and thus, their great ecological,
social, economic, and aesthetic values are ignored. Meanwhile, due
to constant changes of global and regional ecological environments,
lagged design theories and techniques, and limited aesthetic
consciousness, urban plantscapes-the most important producer with
provisioning and regulating services for both urban wildernesses
and constructed ecosystems-are confronting problems such as poor
species and structural diversity, high maintenance requirements,
and insufficient ecosystem services. 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. Landscape
Architecture Frontiers attempts to define an "urban wilderness" and
its images, connotations, implications, and resources; explore
related techniques to provide full play to its irreplaceable role
in providing ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation;
and focus on urban re-wilding practices and ecological planting
theories, aiming at well integrating urban wildernesses into the
naturally constructed urban ecosystem to enhance the city's
ecological sustainability and resilience.
Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape
Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means
to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary
design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of
innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in
how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex
systems. This curated volume spans academic and professional
projects to form a snapshot of digital practices that aim to show
how computation is a tool that goes beyond methods of
representation and media. The book is organized in four sections;
syntax, perception, employ, and prospective. The essays are written
by leading academics and professionals and the sections examine the
role of computational tools in landscape architecture through case
studies, historical accounts, theoretical arguments, and nascent
propositions.
Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape
Architecture provides a series of essays that explore what it means
to use, modify and create computational tools in a contemporary
design environment. Landscape architecture has a long history of
innovation in the areas of computation and media, particularly in
how the discipline represents, analyses, and constructs complex
systems. This curated volume spans academic and professional
projects to form a snapshot of digital practices that aim to show
how computation is a tool that goes beyond methods of
representation and media. The book is organized in four sections;
syntax, perception, employ, and prospective. The essays are written
by leading academics and professionals and the sections examine the
role of computational tools in landscape architecture through case
studies, historical accounts, theoretical arguments, and nascent
propositions.
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