Counter-planning approach

Author: Yu Kongjian, Li Dihua, Liu Hailong
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book takes the comprehensive development perspective and the construction of harmonious human-land relationships as the overall guiding ideology, and bases its arguments on the care for land and the natural, living, and human processes on it. It systematically discusses the "anti-planning" approach to urban and regional development. Taking Taizhou, Zhejiang as an example, it introduces the planning steps of regional and urban ecological infrastructure at macro, meso, and micro levels, including how to integrate with the existing urban planning system and how to form a healthy urban form through ecological infrastructure. Finally, at the micro scale, it illustrates with a practical project how to build ecological infrastructure in friendship with floods.