Terrain-Specific: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Canada

The Canadian landscape has typically captured a global imaginary of a pristine wild, but how might its urban designed landscapes be distinctly understood? Foregrounded by the landscape transformations accelerated by climate change, the book Innate Terrain: Canadian Landscape Architecture, edited by Professor Alissa North from the University of Toronto, highlights landscape architecture projects situated on the unique Canadian terrain. Providing further provocation on Canadian landscape architecture, Innate Terrain seeks to fill the literary gap on contemporary landscape perspectives, distinguishing Canadian landscape architecture from global practice, and particularly, its well-documented American counterpart. Landscape architecture in the Canadian context has evolved and established its own distinct identity, one imbued with national and local sensitivities. Informed by diverse environmental and cultural contexts, Canadian-designed landscapes reflect and refer to the prevailing ecosystems of Canada’s innate terrain. Contrary to the preceding International Style, landscape architecture projects in Canada have adopted the ethos of Critical Regionalism in the second half of the 20th century. Contemporary Canadian practitioners are designing landscapes that are deeply informed by their surrounding geographical context while emphasizing cultural specificity. Central to this cultural specificity, addressed by a new generation of landscape architects, is the increasing recognition of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge within the discipline. Canadian landscape architects have collaborated with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, including the keepers of this knowledge, to develop land management strategies and design landscape interventions.     

CineCubes: Aiding data workers gain insights from OLAP queries

In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to enrich query answering with a short data movie that gives insights to the original results of an OLAP query. Our method, implemented in an actual system, CineCubes, includes the following steps. The user submits a query over an underlying star schema. Taking this query as input, the system comes up with a set of queries complementing the information content of the original query, and executes them. For each of the query results, we execute a set of highlight extraction algorithms that identify interesting patterns and values in the data of the results. Then, the system visualizes the query results and accompanies this presentation with a text commenting on the result highlights. Moreover, via a text-to-speech conversion the system automatically produces audio for the constructed text. Each combination of visualization, text and audio practically constitutes a movie, which is wrapped as a PowerPoint presentation and returned to the user.     

Structural Characteristics and Contemporary Value of Traditional Water Cultural Landscapes in Huizhou Region

Water culture is one of the key issues in Water Ecological Civilization. China’s traditional water cultural landscape embodies rich water cultures, and have a significance in related research and protection practice. This paper proposes the concept of “water cultural landscape,” that is, the landscape formed through humans’ environmental alteration during water activities—including how people use, transform, and manage it. The traditional water cultural landscapes in Huizhou Region have developed over hundreds of years, reflecting the locals’ wisdom in sustainable water use. The water cultural landscape in Huizhou Region should be interpreted as a systematic notion, in which all landscape elements such as ponds, weirs, and shuikous are interdependent, composing the landscape components e.g. valleys, hills, and basins, and establishing water security patterns for cities, towns, villages, and for production. The traditional water cultural landscape in Huizhou Region requires local generations’ long-term maintenance and management, and in turn it is also vital to Huizhou people's life and Huizhou culture. Today, it acts as an ecological infrastructure for sponge countryside and sponge city construction, and an important resource for heritage protection and tourism development.     

威廉·钱伯斯爵士与邱园

威廉·钱伯斯爵士对东西方园林艺术交流、英国自然式园林的发展有着积极的推动作用。通过介绍钱伯斯生平及其有关中国的建筑、园林论著,梳理了钱伯斯对中国园林艺术认知的缘由、发展和观点,在此基础上阐述钱伯斯时代的邱园建造的背景、特征及变化,总结钱伯斯开创的"绘画式"风景园的风格特点。不同于肯特和布朗关于自然与艺术的看法,钱伯斯提出园林艺术应源于自然、高于自然的思想,并在自然与艺术的融合方面进行了大胆的尝试。     

区域空间规划生态分级保护研究 ——以华蓥山东麓为例

生态分级保护是空间规划中重要支 撑性内容,是全面协调生态保护与开发利用 关系,实现各类空间差异化管控,促进区域 可持续发展的重要途径。本文以华蓥山东麓 为例,通过生态功能重要性和生态敏感性评 价,同时结合景观生态安全格局进行分析, 构建生态保护分级指数模型,按保护程度由 高至低将研究区划分为Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ、Ⅳ级。其 中,I级保护区为基本生态控制区,实行严格 的生态保护制度;II级保护区为生态缓冲区, 实行生态修复与城乡建设、产业发展负面清 单管理制度;III级保护区为农业生态区,加 强农业生态环境保护,建立健全绿色生态农 业导向机制;IV级保护区主要为城镇村庄生 态区,加强城乡居民点环境保护,推进人居 环境建设。研究结果可为华蓥山东麓生态修 复保护总体规划提供借鉴,对华蓥山自然保 护区与城镇建设区之间生态过渡地带的精细 化、精准化、差别化管理具有重要意义。     

大数据在绿地规划设计中多尺度应用进展综述

大数据技术实现了风景园林规划的 技术革新以及规划设计参与主体的拓展,为 绿地规划设计带来了新的机遇。本文较为全 面地总结了大数据在绿地规划设计领域应用 的方式和思路,从宏观、中观、微观三种尺 度分析绿地规划设计中大数据的应用：在宏 观尺度上,大数据可用于研究城市范围内不 同绿地使用的规律以及导致绿地使用空间差 异性的影响因素,也可以帮助决策绿地规划 选址;在中观尺度上,大数据可用于指导绿 道、风景名胜区规划等风景园林专类规划;在 微观尺度上,可利用大数据分析游客在绿地 中的活动行为与空间喜好,以指导绿地设计 与改造。本文以期为在绿地规划设计中更科 学有效地应用大数据提供新的思路     

对风景名胜区和自然保护区实行特许经营的讨论

介绍了国外国家公园实行特许经营的经验,阐述特许经营的基本特征和实行特许经营的一些基本原则。揭示在我国的一些风景名胜区和自然保护区实行的“特许经营”所具有的整体性、垄断性和不公开、不透明等缺陷,分析了以经营等同于管理、以经营取代管理给国家级风景名胜区和自然保护区资源保护管理带来的种种弊端。风景名胜区和自然保护区的特许经营问题,需要进一步的理论研究、个案调查,从而推动立法进程。     

3S技术在日本筑波山梅林公园规划上的应用

以日本筑波山梅林公园规划为例,总结了利用3S技术进行园林规划的方法及其起到的作用,并阐明了如何将得到的经验教训结合我国国情,推动我国相关方面的发展进程.     

中国桂花品种分类研究

对中国桂花品种进行了调查和分类研究.我国现知桂花品种154个,分属于4个品种群,其中四季桂品种群18个、银桂品种群57个、金桂品种群43个、丹桂品种群36个,编制了品种分类检索表.     

休闲社区--现代居住环境景观设计手法探讨

首先提出了休闲社区的概念，提倡一种更加质朴，自然，更加清新和追求不留设计痕迹的居住环境设计风格。继而从小区地形塑造，步道系统，社区广场，植栽配置，基础绿化，水景，消防车道等各个方面，针对目前国内社区在规划设计中存在的一些弊病，对现代居住环境景观设计手法进行探讨，提出了许多具有建设性，操作性强的方法。文中还着重提到，应在建筑，道路都还没有确定的情况下，由景观规划师来做整体规划，对小区建筑，道路进行整体布局，从而创造真正的社区，营造亲切的人性空间。