Articles tagged with Landscape Architecture
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A study by Penn State researchers found that using electricity for space heating can significantly reduce on-site household energy consumption. The team also identified other factors, such as the use of electric water heaters and construction methods, that contribute to energy savings.
A new study by the HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research found that villages within forest-dominated landscapes exhibit higher biodiversity compared to agricultural settings. City proximity boosts human well-being, but has little impact on species numbers and diversity.
University of Missouri researchers create digital sentiment map using AI to analyze public Instagram posts, linking emotional tone to real-life features. The tool aims to improve city services, identify areas of concern, and inform emergency response decisions.
A novel research project found that greener areas have fewer fatal police shootings, particularly in socially and economically disadvantaged communities. The study suggests that higher levels of greenness can reduce violence through mechanisms such as reduced crime, improved mental health, and increased civic engagement.
Researchers propose darkening cities to improve biodiversity, human health, and reduce energy waste by embracing nocturnal living. Professor Nick Dunn's 'Dark Futures: When the Lights Go Down' presents a vision for an alternative future that reconnects humans with nature's rhythms.
Researchers found that large, contiguous areas of well-networked tree canopies lower mortality risk in densely developed cities. Compact, geometrically simple areas of tree canopy also show a positive effect on health. The study suggests that connecting isolated green spaces and promoting biodiversity can support human health.
A USC study has found a drastic increase in building collapses in Alexandria, Egypt, due to rising sea levels and seawater intrusion. The researchers used a three-pronged approach to assess the impact of shoreline changes on the city's buildings.
Researchers have developed AI-enabled detection software that can accurately detect natural debris, litter, or waste blocking culverts. The system can be integrated to existing CCTV systems to provide proactive flood defense, improving safety for response teams.
Researchers analyzed public perceptions of historic urban landscapes in Shaoxing, China, revealing that different characteristics affect sentiments differently on weekdays and weekends. Urban designers should develop targeted plans to balance preservation with development, ensuring a sustainable environment and people's well-being.
A newly developed community park in Ventura, California, was found to increase physical activity and improve mental well-being among residents in low-income neighborhoods. The study suggests that green spaces play a crucial role in enhancing human health in marginalized areas.
A study on refining waterbird habitat conservation in compact urban areas using Nature-Based Solutions (NbS). The project developed a model with six strategies to restore coastal wetland habitats, resulting in notable increases in target species and ecosystem services. It offers valuable insights for ecological restoration across China.
Researchers evaluated current carbon sinks in Wensu County, identified spatial patterns, and developed ecological restoration strategies. The study found that southern foothills have the best carbon sequestration capacity, with proposed strategies to boost carbon sinks by integrating with other ecological goals
This article discusses co-creative strategies for embracing pyric forces in landscape architecture. It highlights the potential of beneficial fire and promotes collaboration with fire stewards to gain insights. Landscape architects are encouraged to become active stewards themselves.
This article proposes a pathway for creating smart neighborhoods by integrating intelligent technology with scenario-based operations. It explores how this approach can improve the design, construction, and operation of future urban neighborhoods, providing a reference for China's smart neighborhood construction.
This study evaluates the quality of GAN-generated results in landscape architecture masterplan generation and their effectiveness in design workflows. Image analysis and user surveys show high levels of visual realism and preference for color and texture in GAN-generated layouts and masterplans.
Researchers propose a time-division multiplexing (TDM) planning strategy for compact cities' parking lots, balancing vehicle and pedestrian needs. The approach combines technical expertise with community engagement to create efficient and sustainable spaces.
Site-specific digital twins offer a promising approach to urban design and community engagement by integrating virtual and physical realms, promoting inclusive and responsive development. The concept encourages scalability and specificity in applying DT techniques, facilitating data integration and cross-scale twinning.
The paper reviews existing assessment tools for digitalized low-carbon urban planning and design, highlighting their limitations and application shortcomings. The study categorizes and compares 19 assessment tools, focusing on city-scale and district/neighborhood-scale carbon assessment tools.
Texas A&M University researchers have developed a 3D visualization technology to identify potential outcomes of hurricane flooding before it occurs. This allows for improved safety and reduced damage costs. The technology can also model specific buildings, accounting for basements, back entrances, and windows.
The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, has shrunk to 10% of its original volume due to water diversion for cotton plantations. The article proposes a new design approach that acknowledges human devastation while slowing the sea's disappearance through ecological markers and materials.
Researchers at Osaka University developed an innovative positioning system for drone-based mixed reality applications, enabling accurate alignment between real and virtual worlds. This development will lead to versatile drone-based MR applications in architecture, engineering, and construction.
The article emphasizes the importance of enhancing infrastructure resilience in resilient city construction. It highlights the need for whole-process, multi-factor, multisystem research on urban resilience as a crucial reference for planning and design.
This study employed pragmatic designed experiments to propose a semi-empirical ecological design framework, emphasizing learning by doing and research through practice. The project achieved various degrees of goals, with the enhanced paddy field system and bird island showing notable results.
This study introduces a landscape intervention method to address unequal e-waste treatment, focusing on ecological restoration and local community benefits. The proposed approach combines five concepts: ecological restoration, flood management, stormwater purification, spatial programs, and livelihood income.
This study examines the journey toward hazard-resilience in five exemplary cities, highlighting distinct approaches to addressing disaster risk and building resilience. The research emphasizes the importance of government support, community participation, and cultural awareness in enhancing urban resilience.
The article explores the evolution of resilient cities to bold cities, focusing on policies, actions, and hot trends. Key findings include multi-level governance, circular economy, nature-based solutions, equal opportunities, and open data capabilities.
Researchers mapped global Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, finding a significant surge in WUIs over 35 years, with 6.62 million square kilometers at risk of wildfires. The study provides essential insights for effective fire management and resilient community development.
The article discusses the author's journey into plant humanities, a field that combines biology and culture to promote plant appreciation. Plant South Salesroom, an action group in China, facilitates public-engaged practices to break down 'plant blindness' and foster dialogue between science and humanities.
This article analyzes the work of two influential landscape architects, Xiaoxiang Sun and Lawrence Halprin, to explore their intellectual potentials for contemporary landscape architecture theory. Their theories focus on the role of nature, form-giving, and aesthetic experience in designed landscapes.
A building project reacts to three topographical approaches in a remote Chinese landscape, balancing architectural pursuits with engineering concerns. The project reconciles demands at different scales and functions, promoting an effective dialogue between architecture and its landscape settings.
This article explores the significance of site perception training in landscape architecture, arguing that experiencing sites precedes form-making training. Five methods for landscape site perception are introduced, including sketching, notation, and spatial structure mapping, to provide a visualized pathway for site perception.
The study analyzes artificial mountain making in traditional Chinese gardens from a topographical perspective, highlighting the importance of form, space, and time in creating dynamic landscapes. The research contributes to the development of Landscape Architecture in contemporary China.
The Mekong and Sài Gòn-Đồng Nai Deltas have undergone significant topographical changes due to human activities, leading to loss of ecology and biodiversity. Indigenous knowledge systems and practices have adapted to these changes, showcasing resistance and resilience in the face of imposed supra-order.
This study explores topography's role in refining landscape design methods by analyzing the complex relationships between humans and land. Topographical design can help balance abstract concepts with concrete perceptions to drive scientific development and artistic expression.
The 'Lodgers' project in Fly Ranch prioritizes plant and animal well-being, uses local resources to minimize waste, and incorporates Traditional Ecological Knowledge. This approach challenges contemporary architectural practice and offers a response to climate challenges through cohabitation and material cycles.
This article explores the need for cultural heritage professionals to develop competencies in dealing with uncertainty. It advocates for a systemic understanding of cultural heritage as a prerequisite for sustainable adaptation to current challenges.
This article introduces a landscape-based approach to urban heritage management, incorporating people, spatial biography, and ecosystem elements. The proposed method aims to develop sustainable human habitats through the protection of place identity and public participation.
Aya Kubota emphasizes the importance of engaging local residents in historical environment preservation and regeneration. This approach supports the preservation and utilization of 'Legacy of Catastrophe' and presents a valuable alternative to current urbanization methods.
The Historic Urban Landscape paradigm shifts focus from iconic buildings to city communities, highlighting the importance of nostalgia in understanding the past's impact on present and future development. This approach provides a balance between preserving cultural heritage and adapting to urban changes.
A comparative analysis of three communities surrounding the park found that social relations, local culture, and equity and rights were highly valued. However, fringe communities perceived the most negative impacts in all four dimensions, emphasizing the need for government support and attention to non-economic social impacts
This study found that external groups are more willing to pay for landscape resources than internal groups, with higher payment rates for ecological environment improvement. Demographic factors also influence payment rates, while attitude factors have a greater impact on landscape resource value than demographic or environmental factors.
This study integrates heritage corridor route planning with public perception and digital footprints, combining physical and social semantic data analyses. By analyzing users' movement flows and online textual data, the research optimizes routes for urban heritage corridors, offering reference to overall protection of urban heritages.
Researchers at ETH Zurich developed an autonomous excavator called HEAP to construct a 6-meter-high and 65-meter-long dry-stone wall. The excavator uses sensors, machine vision, and algorithms to place stones in the desired location, achieving a high level of precision and speed.
Researchers at Osaka University develop a method to train AI models using simulated city images, reducing the need for real data and saving human effort. The approach generates realistic images with accurate ground truth labels, addressing instance segmentation challenges.
A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and other institutions has identified a flexible and user-friendly model for predicting flood frequency in a changing environment. The fractional polynomial-based regression method is more effective than existing models, which often fail to account for factors like climate ...
A study assesses and optimizes the landscape visual aesthetic quality of street pedestrian spaces in Jinan, China's historic downtown, using panoramic images and deep learning methods. The research finds that urban streets with high aesthetic quality serve as corridors among mountains and natural landscapes, improving city image.
Researchers found that people's perception of natural spaces changed during the pandemic, with increased use of rural trails and a newfound appreciation for nature. The study suggests that parks and greenspaces serve as essential amenities for overall well-being, particularly for marginalized communities.
A recent HKU study found that Global South cities experience only one-third of the greenspace exposure level of Global North cities, highlighting the need for prioritizing greening policies and actions. The research reveals a severe disparity in greenspace exposure linked to differences in greenspace provision and landscape design.
A new study published in Frontiers found that virtual reality environments with green vegetation and colorful patterns increase heart rate and promote a pleasurable experience. Conversely, colorful patterns alone stimulate interest and fascination without the same restorative effect as nature.
Researchers uncovered intricate settlements in Bolivia's Llanos de Mojos savannah-forest, featuring elaborate structures and a vast network of reservoirs. The cities were built alongside nature, employing successful sustainable subsistence strategies that promoted conservationism and maintained rich biodiversity.
Researchers found that green spaces were used as a tool for control and social cohesion, reducing instability in regions. The study highlights the potential of landscape design as a nonviolent means of subduing resistance from local populations.
Research by Shan Jiang found that introducing nature views into hospital corridors can significantly ease confusion and anger in navigating large medical complexes. The study revealed that participants used shorter time and walked less distance to complete wayfinding tasks when exposed to green spaces.
Researchers at TUM explore the use of living trees in architecture, using photogrammetry and skeleton extraction to design structures that adapt to tree growth. They demonstrate a pavilion with a roof structure optimized to follow the shape of supporting branches.
A new paper in the Transportation Research Record identifies six broad categories of equity-advancing practices that public transit agencies nationwide can widely employ. These practices focus on creating fairer and more just public transit systems, rather than just assessing how service is distributed.
UTA student teams took first place and honorable mention in the Environmental Protection Agency's Campus RainWorks Challenge with innovative designs incorporating green infrastructure practices. The winning project,
A new study found that counties with more green spaces have lower racial disparities in coronavirus infection rates, possibly due to equal access to health benefits. Green spaces are associated with improved cognitive performance, reduced stress and increased social cohesion.
The University of Texas at Arlington team is working with historically black communities to create maps documenting Freedmen's Towns along the Trinity River and propose design strategies to address long-standing environmental issues. The project aims to combat environmental racism and loss of historic resources in Black settlements.
Researchers at the University of Arkansas will expand their current prototype for a touch-based kiosk and interactive website, A House of the Ozarks, using a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The project, Housing the Human and the Sacred, will also include five additional structures designed by Jones.
Researchers suggest Machu Picchu was built on tectonic faults, taking advantage of fracture planes to shape stones and access water. The site's unique architecture reflects the underlying geological fault network.
A new study from University of Arizona researchers finds that walkability and traffic safety are crucial factors in determining how often people visit community greenspaces. Residents who live in areas with high levels of perceived traffic safety and surveillance are more likely to visit parks frequently, while those who travel by walk...