Tag: critical writing
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A shifting landscape of the billions
Some thoughts by Daphne Kao In a country like China with a population of 1.351 billion, it’s inhabitants become the most prominent but also the most invisible part of the landscape. Only when there is a purposely-made long holidays like October National Day or Chinese New Year, do you see this moving landscape of people at the airport, […]
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Agricultural Landscape Tourism
The agricultural landscapes of China are the focus of landscape architect Daphne Kao’s reflections. Agricultural landscape has its importance in every civilization. Agricultural land not only directly engages with food production, it also represents the most basic form of landscape marking by human-kind. Our modern society built on these agricultural foundations, but now they are […]
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Building the urban forest
Scenario Journal welcomes the submission of critical essays, provocations, and design projects that explore the topic of building the urban forest. The forest carries deep cultural significance. Within the urban landscape, this ecologically complex, spatially layered, dynamic system is also understood to perform a wide range of essential ecosystem services, from increasing property values to […]
The Landscape 