Liu The Trialism and Application of Human Settlement, Inhabitation and Travel Environment Studies

Applications in Valley, Plain, Hilly, and Arid Regions
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-7086-1
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 767 Seiten

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 4 typical human settlement types: valley, plain, hilly, and arid regions. Focusing on three elements of Trialism — (1) natural and constructed environments, resources, and visual landscapes in human settlements background; (2) survival strategies, customs, culture, and values in human settlements activity; and (3) the layout of time and space as well as the planning and design of the urban, the country, and the wilderness in human settlements construction — the book analyzes the evolution of human settlements and predicts future trends.

Presenting academic researchers and graduate students in various fields with insights from landscape architecture, urban planning, architecture, geography, forestry, art, and psychology, the book discusses the principles of interactive physiological thinking and systematically theoretical philosophy related to professional physiology, planning and design principles, and traditional and modern methods and technologies in urban and rural construction. The innovative multi-discipline book promotes the planning and design of five types of human settlement, which is helpful to the judgment of value, activity rule, and living style of human settlements, and also discusses the development of human settlements in the new millennium.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Binyi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wang, Nan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Human Settlement, Inhabitation and Travel Environment Studies in Plain Region.- Human Settlement, Inhabitation and Travel Environment Studies in Hilly Region.- Human Settlement, Inhabitation and Travel Environment Studies in Arid Region.

Über Autor(innen)

Binyi Liu (1957-) graduated from Tongji University with a master’s degree and a PhD. In 1989, he became the first person who got Ph.D. in landscape architecture in China. As the discipline leader of Landscape Architecture Department of Tongji for 26 years (1996-2022), he has made important contributions to the discipline construction and professional education development of Tongji University. As the First Convenor of the Discipline Assessment Group of Landscape architecture of the 7th(2015-2020)Academic Degree Committee of Chinese State Council, he promoted the recognition of first-level discipline of landscape architecture and the modernization systematic construction of professional education. In 1992, he gave lectures in more than ten universities in the United States, promoting the exchange of landscape architecture education between China and the United States. In 1994, he was awarded the honorary life membership (the only Chinese) by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). He is currently a professor and doctoral advisor at the School of Arts and Humanities in Macao University of Science and Technology, a landscape architecture professor in Tongji University, a discipline leader, the first convenor of the 8th(2020-2025)Academic Degree Committee of The State Council on Landscape Architecture, and a member of the Expert Committee for the compilation of the 2021-2035 Chinese National Space Planning Outline. So far, he has trained 46 doctors and more than 220 masters in landscape architecture. He has published 16 textbooks such as “Systematization of Landscape Engineering”, “Modern Landscape Planning and Design”, “Research Methodology and Application of Human Settlements”, and more than 560 academic papers of various kinds. He has presided over the completion of 1 key project and 6 additional projects of National Natural Science Foundation in China, and 1 project of Science and Technology Support Plan of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. He completed more than 200 practices of landscape planning and design, tourism planning, and urban planning in China. He wins special allowance of Chinese State Council, Huo Yingdong Award for Outstanding Young Teachers, Cross-Century Outstanding Talents Program of the Ministry of Education, Huaxia Science and Technology Progress Award, and many other awards. He has been approved to teach3 national excellent open-access courses and 2 national first-class undergraduate courses. His independently-instructed MOOCS of “Basic Principles of Landscape Planning and Design” has been published online of “Learning Power” visited by over 1.43 million times.

About the Translator:

Nan Wang (1984-) is a Registered Certified Planner in China, and a LEED AP BD+C. She gained her bachelor and master degree in urban planning from Nanjing Tech University and her doctor degree in landscape architecture in Tongji University when Prof. Liu Binyi was her doctoral academic supervisor, and also worked as post-doc in School of Environmental Science in Tongji University. She studied as an exchange student in Design School of Taiwan Chaoyang Technology University, and visiting scholar in Department of Architecture of Columbia University. At present, she works as the faculty, master student academic supervisor, and Dean of Urban Design and Theory Sector in Department of Urban and Rural Planning in Nanjing Tech University with many publications and national funded research projects. She is a senior English-Chinese interpreter in over 20-year experience with more than 600,000 words translation works. Also, she is good at surfing and an SUP coach certified by China Water Sports Administration with research interest in landscape architecture design, sports tourism planning, artificial intelligence and public health management.