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4 Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainable Cities in China and the United States
4 Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainable Cities in China and the United States
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NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND PERFORMANCE According to Kongjian Yu, professor of urban and regional planning and landscape architecture at Peking University, nature-based solutions will be critical to addressing urban sustainability challenges (see Box 4-1)
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Dr. Yu described another example in Yanweizhou Park in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, using natural mechanisms to clean contaminated water that introduced an ecological embankment to reduce peak flow.
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Yu demonstrated a strengthened nature-based water cleansing process that can clean contaminated river water to nonpotable clean water through a constructed wetland park, suggesting one hectare of this kind of wetland can produce 800 tons of nonpotable water. This nature-based water cleansing design has been replicated in many cities in China, such as Haikou's Meishe River (Figure 4-2)
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SOURCE: Kongjian Yu, Presentation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, December 16, 2019, Washington, DC. and to address a multitude of urban ecological issues.
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2 local climate zones for urban temperature studies provide a typology of urban land cover types at hundreds to thousands of meters, microclimate zones also allow for a move toward a user-centered approach by effectively summarizing field data at scales that are relevant to municipalities.
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SOURCE: V Kelly Turner, Presentation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, December 16, 2019, Washington, DC.
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Thermal imagery created by Ariane Middel, Arizona State University, and photography by Mary Braswell, University of California, Los Angeles. HAPPY CITIES: MAXIMIZING HUMAN WELL-BEING THROUGH URBAN DESIGN Yingling Fan, professor in the regional planning and policy area at University of Minnesota, provided additional insight into how urban design can impact human well-being by discussing her research on transportation and happiness in China and the United States,3 particularly how design can impact or affect emotions.
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Dr. Georgescu noted that there are twin forcing agents driving climate change in urban environments: greenhouse gasses (GHGs)
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31 SOURCE: Yingling Fan, Presentation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, December 16, 2019, Washington, DC.
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SOURCE: Yingling Fan, Presentation, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, December 16, 2019, Washington, DC.
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.6 Indoor living environments during these heat waves are also of concern in the United States and, especially, elsewhere.
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One example discussed was developing mechanisms to fast-track financing for green infrastructure. Several participants also discussed the role of politics in urban design and the importance of engaging citizens to collect data to inform decision making.
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