Landscape Architecture Frontiers 042: Slowing Cities and Lifestyles

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While benefiting from the efficient and convenient urban life brought by the highly urbanized society, people are suffering from traffic congestion, energy shortage, and air and water pollution. In metropolises, these problems might aggravate city residents mental stress, which has aroused a general concern on physical and psychological health. In this issue, we hope to improve urban spatial structure and enhance the quality of urban infrastructure, architecture, and landscape through research and design to form a slower-paced lifestyle, celebrate cultural identity, and create a more livable city environment that enjoys a smart use of space, a resource-saving development, a harmony between man and nature, and, a running efficiency of cities in which people feel pleasant and comfortable.

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Yu Kongjian Doctor of Design at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Professor of College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University.

Xu Leiqing Professor of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Expert of the Top Think-Tank, Tongji University.

Wan Li Lecturer, Department of Land economy, University of Cambridge.

Sarah Williams Goldhagen Author, Consultant, Architecture Critic; Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Ming-Jen Hsueh ASLA, PLA; Senior Associate of Sasaki Associates.

Aprina Murwanti Senior Lecturer and Researcher of visual Art education at Universitas Negeri Jakarta.