Designers in China looking for a challenge are spoilt for choice. Rapid urbanisation has left the country struggling with environmental degradation, loss of natural resources and rising social inequality.
The conventional approach to urban planning adopted by many Chinese cities, and cities elsewhere, is oriented toward economic development – while often incurring the cost of ecological destruction.
As founts of ancestral wisdom about the natural world, China and Mexico should combine their knowledge to build sustainable cities, award-winning Chinese landscape architect Yu Kongjian said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
China and Mexico have in common an ancient wisdom about nature, and knowledge should be shared to protect the environment, Chinese architect and world leader in green urban planning, Yu Kongjian, told Xinhua.
The talk will follow the author Kongjian Yu to explore a low maintenance approach to create a green wall and productive roof at his own home and beyond.
The ecological urban planner Kongjian Yu believes that the urban model of gray cities, which prioritizes the use of cars and expels water from the basin, can be transformed into sponge cities .