TavistalksenvironmentalissueswithKongjianYuandexaminessomeofthechallengesfacingmodernChina

Living organisms have the ability to adapt, change, and protect themselves. Houtan Park at the Shanghai 2010 Expo is designed as a living Organism. Located on a former “brown lands” field on the Huangpu waterfront, Houtan Park is a showcase for the Expo as a regenerative public green space.

Livingorganismshavetheabilitytoadapt,change,andprotectthemselves.

Asisoftenthecase,thebeachsurroundingthisprojectwasfacingdestructionduetotheregion’soverdevelopment

ThegroupbeatoutthehugelypopularHighline,NewYork’selevatedrailpark,anticipatedbymanytowinthisyear’stopaward.

Hismajorresearchinterestsincludethetheoryandmethodoflandscapearchitecture,urbanplanningforsustainablecities,culturalheritage,andecologicalplanning.

For13years,ProfessorYuKongjianhasbeenworkingtowakeChinauptofaceandaddressherimpendingcrisisintherelationbetweenhumansandtheearth.

designedbyYuKongjiantoreclaimanindustrialwastelandandremakeitintoademonstrationecologicalsite,plantedwithindigenousspecies—anunusualgreenoutpostinthemiddleofanever-more-relentlesslydevelopedurbansetting.

Greenways are considered to be "corridors of various widths, linked together in a network in much the same way as our networks of highways and railroads have been linked" (Fabos, 1995).

campus is an ambitions attempt to do something genuinely novel in campus design in China—to build a bridge across a widening gap in the fabric of Chinese society.