Intelligent Landscape Architecture as an Approach to Addressing Critical Issues

Abstract

It is a valuable tradition of landscape architecture to focus on the critical challenges to the humanity and to provide spatial solutions. Facing the major issues of global governance, such as climate change, resource scarcity and environmental constraints, abrupt disasters, and even the emergence of disruptive technologies, an "intelligent transformation" of landscape architecture is a compelling way to address them. Recently, driven by the great progress of new technologies including ubiquitous sensing, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, the intelligent transformation not only helps landscape architecture better respond to the critical issues in the entire process of situational awareness, problem analysis, scheme making, outcome representation, effectiveness evaluation, and governance and optimization, but also provides new opportunities for the discipline's own transformation in terms of research objects, methodologies, and key skills.

Keywords

Landscape Architecture / Critical Issues / Disruptive Technologies / Disciplinary Transformation / Intelligent Transformation / Global Governance

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