ABSTRACT
Converging drivers of change such as biodiversity loss, human population expansion, and climate change pose great challenges to the building of humanity’s habitat, primarily now cities. People must rethink industrial technology-based hard engineering solutions to these urban issues and rediscover nature-based and symbiotic solutions. In this chapter, three landscape architecture projects constructed in China are described and used to illustrate the concepts. Design strategies and results are discussed. The case studies show that landscapes can be designed as holistic ecological infrastructures that provide multiple ecosystem services. These nature-based solutions can partially replace conventional grey infrastructure and make the built environmental more resilient.
