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Living with Water: Flood Adaptive Landscapes in the Yellow River Basin of China
This paper is a report on a research project. It shows how the past experience of adaptive strategies that have evolved in the long history of survival under hazardous conditions is inspiring for us in facing future uncertainty. Based on a study of several ancient cities in the Yellow River floodplain, this paper discusses the disastrous experience of floods and waterlogging and finds three major adaptive landscape strategies: siting on high ground, constructing walls and protective dikes, and reserving or digging ponds within cities. These adaptive strategies create three types of water city: water-within-city, city-in-water, and ying-yang-city. It is argued that all these traditional experiences and landscape heritages help us to understand the vernacular cultural landscape of cities in the Yellow River floodplain, and that they have important value for landscape architecture and urban planning as universally applicable strategies in facing global warming and regional climate change as well as practical landscape strategies for better urban design in this region. It is further argued that the water-adaptive landscapes are valuable features of the cultural heritage, and should be integrated into landscape and urban planning for urban development today.
Living with Water: Flood Adaptive Landscapes in the Yellow River Basin of China
This paper is a report on a research project. It shows how the past experience of adaptive strategies that have evolved in the long history of survival under hazardous conditions is inspiring for us in facing future uncertainty. Based on a study of several ancient cities in the Yellow River floodplain, this paper discusses the disastrous experience of floods and waterlogging and finds three major adaptive landscape strategies: siting on high ground, constructing walls and protective dikes, and reserving or digging ponds within cities. These adaptive strategies create three types of water city: water-within-city, city-in-water, and ying-yang-city. It is argued that all these traditional experiences and landscape heritages help us to understand the vernacular cultural landscape of cities in the Yellow River floodplain, and that they have important value for landscape architecture and urban planning as universally applicable strategies in facing global warming and regional climate change as well as practical landscape strategies for better urban design in this region. It is further argued that the water-adaptive landscapes are valuable features of the cultural heritage, and should be integrated into landscape and urban planning for urban development today.
Living with Water: Flood Adaptive Landscapes in the Yellow River Basin of China
Yu, Kongjian (Autor:in) / Lei, Zhang (Autor:in) / Dihua, Li (Autor:in)
Journal of Landscape Architecture ; 3 ; 6-17
01.09.2008
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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