Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas: Characterization, Typology and Design Research

Xie, Yuting

ISBN 10: 9811907560 / ISBN 13: 9789811907562

Published by Springer, 2022

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238 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.51 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas: Characterization, Typology and Design Research
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811907560
• ISBN 13: 9789811907562
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.34 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.D. thesis, and concrete practice in China, Germany, and the Netherlands. This research adapts the existing methods of Landscape Character Assessment (UK), Historic Cultural Landscape Elements (Germany), and Dutch Polder Typology to mapping, describing, and classifying landscape character areas and types at the three scales of regional, municipal, and local. Furthermore, to connect research with design, we developed a typological approach of generating specific measures for the networked polder landscape. This research bridges the gap of a missing landscape characterization method for the conservation, transformation, and critical reconstruction of historic cultural landscapes in a metropolitan context. The book is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in the topics of cultural landscape in transition, methods for landscape characterization and typology, and a research-by-design approach in interdisciplinary projects of landscape architecture, urbanism, and regional planning.