Landscape Architecture Frontiers 047: Urban Governance and Spatial Quality Improvement

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The new urbanization necessitates the upgrading of urban governance and spatial planning and design. Landscape Architecture Frontiers accentuates the intelligence on urban growth and physical construction for years.

In this issue, LA Frontiers focuses on the topics about urban governance and spatial quality improvement under the promotion of inventory planning and governance refinement, including: 1) Urban village (micro-) renewals, waterfront revitalization, and industrial, cultural, and historical heritage regeneration;
2) Public participation, community engagement, and other polycentric urban governance modes and inclusive design approaches;
3) The resilience of urban planning and design against sudden disasters and public health emergencies and crises;
4) Diagnoses on the working systems / mechanisms that support the upgrades of urban governance and public space construction, through lenses of Economic Sociology.

By gathering cutting edge research with international outlooks and presenting latest practice examples among China and abroad, LA Frontiers might offer a new prospective that helps professionals interpret associated governance and planning policies, inform practitioners the goals and roadmaps of public empowerment, navigate planners and designers with flexible implementation and management guidelines, to eventually improve the spatial quality of public places, as well as the overall benefits in society, ecology, and economy.

Author Bio

Kongjian Yu is a doctor of design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, he is an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University. Yuning Cheng is Chair and Professor for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the School of Architecture, Southeast University. Tianqing Luois an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Studies at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. Junhua Zhang is a professor for Graduate Studies of Horticulture, Landscape Architecture at Chiba University. Sergio Lopez-Pineiro is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Huaichun Xu is Director at AECOM. Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Wei Guo is a professor at the School of Landscape Architecture and is the doctoral supervisor at Beijing Forestry University. Christopher Kelly is an associate of Urban Design at Hassell.