as China has become more urbanized and “civilized,” the vernacular landscape has been gradually deprived of its productivity,

everydesignactionisalsoalandscapinggesturewithenvironmentalimplications.

ItisacallforthereturntotheGoodEarthandacallfortherescueofthewealth-corruptedsocietythathasbeenalienatedfromtheland.

thisprojectdemonstrateshowaminimaldesignsolutioncanachievedramaticimprovements,turninga“messy,”naturalBig-Footlandscapeintoabeautifulurbanpark,whilepreservingthenaturalprocessesandpatterns.

whatwearetryingtodoistodefineacontemporaryChinesevernacularandanewaesthetic.Wewanttobeauthentic,tobegood,andthenbeautiful.

Hismajorresearchinterestsincludethetheoryandmethodoflandscapearchitecture,urbanplanningforsustainablecities,culturalheritage,andecologicalplanning.

For13years,ProfessorYuKongjianhasbeenworkingtowakeChinauptofaceandaddressherimpendingcrisisintherelationbetweenhumansandtheearth.

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).

It has made a significant contribution to the new understanding and redefinition the profession of the Landscape Architecture and Landscape itself across time: since the industrial era to the post-industrial era.

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.