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E-book Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

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Landscape architecture participates in development. Whether that participation isself-reflective or uncritical, complicit or compromised, this discipline has had signif-icant impacts on development practice and academia that are often unacknowledgedoutside what is otherwise a relatively narrow professional field. In the ways land-scapes are planned and studied, for instance, both geographic information systemsand modern landscape ecology, which are today established parts of diverse socialand natural sciences, owe their origins distinctly to landscape architecture.In 1967, landscape architect Ian McHarg, often referred to as the father ofGeographic Information Systems (GIS), wrote that “[w]here the landscape archi-tect commands ecology he is the only bridge between the natural sciences and theplanning and design professions, the proprietor of the most perceptive view of thenatural world which science or art has provided” (p. 105). With global urbaniza-tion increasing, both as physical land use change and as expanding discourse andrhetoric, not at any time since the beginning of the twentieth century’s environmentalmovement in the early 1970s has this burden of “bridging” been more imperative.New allegiances between development agencies and planning institutions, such asin China’s recent ecological “red line” policies (Bai et al.,2018), are extendingthese institutions’ (and their planners and landscape architects’) remit into sensi-tive non-urban landscapes and socio-ecological systems. While often the agents andaccomplices of neoliberal development in countries such as Lao PDR, the planningand design disciplines generate scarce critical scholarly reflection on developmentand offer few models of practice for critically engaging or mitigating large projects.A significant portion of this book presents planning proposals for rural develop-ment situated in northern Laos. “Development” here includes such projects, prac-tices, and processes as land conversion, linear infrastructure building, ecologicalresilience, impact mitigation, and resource access and redistribution. These planningproposals are intended to be presented and debated with regional and national govern-ments, multilateral banks, international environmental and human rights NGOs, civil society, and environmental movements. These actors are not the urban real estatedevelopers, town planning boards, and city governments most landscape architects,architects, and planners are trained or accustomed to interact with. The most well-informed expertise in critical development studies rarely enters these professionsor their projects, and there is a lack of publications in the planning and designfields that engage the implementation of large-scale infrastructure development. Thisbook addresses this scholarly lacuna and uses landscape architecture’s interdisci-plinary focus on planning and landscape ecology to synthesize or “bridge” criticaldevelopment studies with the planning and design disciplines’ capacity, if not naivepredilection, to intervene on the ground.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

911 KEL c

Penerbit

Singapore : Springer Nature., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

256 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789811640674

Klasifikasi

911

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Historical Geography

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