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.     

Breaking the search space symmetry in partitioning problems: An application to the graph coloring problem

Many problems consist in splitting a set of objects into different groups so that each group verifies some properties. In practice, a partitioning is often encoded by an array mapping each object to its group numbering. In fact, the group number of an object does not really matter, and one can simply rename each group to obtain a new encoding. That is what we call the symmetry of the search space in a partitioning problem. This property may be prejudicial for optimization methods such as evolutionary algorithms (EA) which require some diversity during the search.     

山重水碧桃花源——杭州绿城·桃花源生态休闲居住区规划

杭州绿城·桃花源生态休闲居住区是一个集居住、游憩及生态环境于一体的低密度住宅园区。作者介绍了该项目的规划构思和规划内容,指出项目规划由风景园林为主多专业合作的优势,对发展中的城郊居住区规划具有参考价值。     

柘树青青

柘树是中华大地上最古老的树种之一,柘木是制弓的良材,汁能染赤黄色,叶可以饲蚕,皮、茎、叶、果实均可入药.早在远古时代,柘与人民的生活就有着密切的关系.历史上,柘就被用来命名后宫,柘枝还被用作曲调、歌舞之名.     

MEMORY·童年·印象--合肥市政务文化新区儿童公园概念性方案

合肥市政务文化新区儿童乐园的概念性方案,充分考虑了儿童的心理和成长交流需要,以儿童的自发活动为特色,兼顾各类活动设施,创造丰富活动空间,构筑了一个富有感染力、空间变幻多彩的都市儿童乐园.     

扬州芍药

研究扬州芍药的栽培简史,明确扬州芍药的历史地位,通过对扬州芍药现状的了解,提出积极措施,努力恢复扬州芍药的园艺地位.     

空间的塑造--厦门海湾公园设计

海湾公园利用植物、地形、大海与湖泊的周边环境等景观要素,运用隐喻、对比的手法,创造丰富、神秘、变化的空间,注重空间灵活的使用功能及其良好的人性化.     

生活污水用于园林绿化的实验

通过对11种在天津石化公司有代表性的绿化植物10年来应用生活污水的跟踪调查及进行的相关实验证明,直接应用生活污水浇灌绿化植物,对绿化植物生长及对环境造成的负面影响不大.根据实验结果认为,生活污水可以有条件地用于园林绿化,并应注意密切跟踪调查.     

The geographies of a more just food system: Building landscapes for social reproduction

Within the lifetime of a generation of people now involved in work in the cattle and beef industry in South Dakota, the landscapes of social reproduction that support and give shape to life for people there have been rearranged. Many of the social and physical relationships that developed to support smaller-scale, diverse farms and their surrounding communities are being made redundant by a new system of beef production and retailing. The costs of these redundancies are felt in dwindling small towns and an ever sparser rural population. Considering these changes as parts of landscapes of social reproduction is a means to connect the political and corporate logic driving our food systems to the spatial production of difference in the conditions for livelihood, as well as the spatial production of livelihood itself for both producers and consumers. Such an analysis is necessary in order to address the injustices inherent within our current food system.     

后工业景观的理性化设计

后工业景观必须借助于其后工业性才能保持特色,保存历史遗留下来的记忆,为人们的生活服务。文章探讨了产业结构转型后的工业废弃地在景观设计中面临的问题,从场地的前期整饬和对工业遗存在景观设计中的取舍两个方面进行了研究。