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This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at
the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management)
conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University
of Wuhan, China. The chapters included were selected based on a
double-blind review process involving external reviewers.
Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and
professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an
overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched.
Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy
and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the
way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes.
Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as
in Australia - where landscapes dominate and their relationship to
cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an
entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique
collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives - perhaps it
could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of
pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated
landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities
and never see the landscapes - but it is these that give the
country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress
on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities
ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to
climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern
world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror
through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention
in the world threatens its very existence.
Michael Batty Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University
College London Landscapes, like cities, cut across disciplines and
professions. This makes it especially difficult to provide an
overall sense of how landscapes should be studied and researched.
Ecology, aesthetics, economy and sociology combine with physiognomy
and deep physical structure to confuse our - derstanding and the
way we should react to the problems and potentials of landscapes.
Nowhere are these dilemmas and paradoxes so clearly highlighted as
in Australia - where landscapes dominate and their relationship to
cities is so fragile, yet so important to the sustainability of an
entire nation, if not planet. This book presents a unique
collection and synthesis of many of these perspectives - perhaps it
could only be produced in a land urb- ised in the tiniest of
pockets, and yet so daunting with respect to the way non-populated
landscapes dwarf its cities. Many travel to Australia to its cities
and never see the landscapes - but it is these that give the
country its power and imagery. It is the landscapes that so impress
on us the need to consider how our intervention, through activities
ranging from resource exploitation and settled agriculture to
climate change, poses one of the greatest crises facing the modern
world. In this sense, Australia and its landscape provide a mirror
through which we can glimpse the extent to which our intervention
in the world threatens its very existence.
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