Let Nature Do Her Work: The Adaptation Palettes of Qiaoyuan Wetland Park
2024-06-12
author：Kongjian Yu
Source：Designed Ecologies The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu . Switzerland: Birkhauser Basel, pp.116-123.
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- Abstract：
- Urban green space is supposed to provide psychological and physical benefits.The reality of many traditional ornamental urban parks,however—particularly those built in the last twenty years in China is that they create economic and environmental burdens because of their high maintenance costs and water and energy consumption. Qiaoyuan Wetland Park implicitly asserts that the beauty of wild grass landscapes has been undervalued,especially in terms of the sustainable services they provide. Concrete channelization of streams and rivers in China has resulted in the loss of ground water supplies.Native plants have been replaced with swaths of ornamentals that suppress biodiversity.It is critical to recover landscape as a living ecosystem that hasthe abilityto adapt, change,and provide ecosystem services.
文章来源：Kongjian Yu. (2012). Let Nature Do Her Work: The Adaptation Palettes of Qiaoyuan Wetland Park. In: William S.Saunders. Designed Ecologies The Landscape Architecture of Kongjian Yu . Switzerland: Birkhauser Basel, pp.116-123.
