1 Introduction Urban environments worldwide are confronted with increasing challenges of balancing development with ecological preservation.Urban design for climate resilience and urban flood regulation is particularl...1 Introduction Urban environments worldwide are confronted with increasing challenges of balancing development with ecological preservation.Urban design for climate resilience and urban flood regulation is particularly crucial in densely populated areas with limited green spaces.Two remarkable projects in China,the Jiaxing Southwest Lake Park and Xi’an Zaohe Sponge River,exemplify how innovative landscape design and sustainable practices can transform urban landscapes.Both of them aim to rejuvenate natural habitats,integrate recreational spaces,and improve residents’quality of life,while addressing environmental concerns.展开更多
The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which b...The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which burrowed directly into the Escarpment’s slope,the greater context of the region’s urban development demands,and the Escarpment’s identity as an ancient geological formation,ecological refugium,and old-growth forest housing ancient species such as Thuja occidentalis.This project explores the university’s responsibility in advocating for the protection of the Escarpment’s unique ecologic conditions,including the distinct cliff ecosystems and the novel successional plant communities evolving on sites of former quarry activities.Interventions on the trail system,cave bridges and lookouts,and the boardwalk and path system,along with guidance of signage and trail markers,will bring visitors to areas where former quarry activities sculptured the Escarpment’s limestone faces and are now reclaimed by a system of lush novel wetlands and habitats in evolutionary stages.Connecting to a system of existing public trails,this project leverages the university’s educational and recreational objectives to form new strategic partnerships with local conservancy groups,aiming at monitoring and managing access and habitat protection.展开更多
文摘1 Introduction Urban environments worldwide are confronted with increasing challenges of balancing development with ecological preservation.Urban design for climate resilience and urban flood regulation is particularly crucial in densely populated areas with limited green spaces.Two remarkable projects in China,the Jiaxing Southwest Lake Park and Xi’an Zaohe Sponge River,exemplify how innovative landscape design and sustainable practices can transform urban landscapes.Both of them aim to rejuvenate natural habitats,integrate recreational spaces,and improve residents’quality of life,while addressing environmental concerns.
文摘The Niagara Escarpment,a 440-million-year-old landform,cuts through a property owned by the University of Toronto in Caledon,Ontario in Canada.The property juxtaposes impacts from historical quarrying activity which burrowed directly into the Escarpment’s slope,the greater context of the region’s urban development demands,and the Escarpment’s identity as an ancient geological formation,ecological refugium,and old-growth forest housing ancient species such as Thuja occidentalis.This project explores the university’s responsibility in advocating for the protection of the Escarpment’s unique ecologic conditions,including the distinct cliff ecosystems and the novel successional plant communities evolving on sites of former quarry activities.Interventions on the trail system,cave bridges and lookouts,and the boardwalk and path system,along with guidance of signage and trail markers,will bring visitors to areas where former quarry activities sculptured the Escarpment’s limestone faces and are now reclaimed by a system of lush novel wetlands and habitats in evolutionary stages.Connecting to a system of existing public trails,this project leverages the university’s educational and recreational objectives to form new strategic partnerships with local conservancy groups,aiming at monitoring and managing access and habitat protection.
