{"315221":{"#nid":"315221","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Prof. Yang discusses the ecological thinking of city-building","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENOTE: Original article only available in Chinese. The English summary is below.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContemporary cities have become \u0022the second nature,\u0022 professor Perry Yang states in a recent interview where he discussed the need for ecological thinking in planning modern cities. Ecological thinking is urgently needed in planning to set the ecological systems as a framework to guide urban planning practices. The new methods include both \u201cscience for design\u201d, an integration of water, energy and material flows, human movement and information in urban systems; and \u201cdesign in science\u201d, to see city-building as an ecological intervention to nurture new relationships between city and nature. By 2040, Perry argued that the new round of urbanization process in China would push new development to farer away remote areas, where development confronts natural systems.\u0026nbsp;In response to the \u201czero land expansion\u201d policy in Shanghai, an ecological approach is needed to shape high-density urban living by regenerating existing urban areas to avoid further depletion of surrounding land resources. It\u2019s possible to develop an ecological urban design method by reducing carbon emissions and promoting energy performance while increasing density to a certain degree.\u0026nbsp;The interview closes with a discussion on ecological smart cities that requires a human-centered responsive urban environment in a new urban era that is both physical and virtual. A future eco city will be supported by an augmented environment and bottom-up processes.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28044","created_gmt":"2014-08-13 12:29:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:14","author":"Jessie Brandon","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s?__biz=MzA3NzQ5MDMzMA==\u0026mid=201463167\u0026idx=1\u0026sn=782a7f3b56a69b15b2dc9e8b4457a7cd\u0026scene=1\u0026from=singlemessage\u0026isappinstalled=0#rd","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"99761","name":"ecological thinking"},{"id":"167242","name":"shanghai"},{"id":"168997","name":"smart city"},{"id":"99751","name":"the new nature"},{"id":"99741","name":"urban growth"},{"id":"10130","name":"Yang"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}