From the Back Cover
Closely related to the frontier research field of "digital technology", this book reshapes the planning and design process of landscape architecture from theoretical and practical levels. It gives a full-scale discussion to the logic, structure, method, and application of digital landscape architecture, leading this field to a new era of perception-quantification research mode. Readers will get a comprehensive understanding of digital landscape architecture, know about multiple digital methods for landscape planning and design, and learn a lot of practical projects with digital technology. And it will inspire the readers to think about new patterns and approaches to landscape planning, rather than traditional ways. This book is organized under a clear logic, which helps the readers easily get the core of the work. A lot of logic diagrams showing between the theoretical paragraphs highly summarize the key points of the book, providing a better readability and acceptability. This book also contains many detailed drawings and graphics for the project cases, which gives a good demonstration of how digital methods could be applied in practice.
Professor Yuning Cheng is also honored as the design master of Jiangsu Province. He is currently the dean of Landscape Architecture Department of the School of Architecture in Southeast University, the director of the Jiangsu Urban-Rural and Landscape Digital Engineering Technology Center, the director of the Institute of Landscape Planning and Design, the leader of the landscape architecture discipline, and the deputy director of the Academic Committee of the School of Architecture in Southeast University. He is an editorial board member of "Chinese Landscape Architecture", "Landscape Architecture", and other journals.
Yuning Cheng has been engaged in the fields of landscape architecture planning and design, landscape architecture design, landscape garden history and theory, digital landscape, and technology for 40 years. He has presided over a number of national, provincial, and ministerial scientific research projects. His published books include "Modern Landscape Design Theory and Methods", "Wetland Park Design", "Site Landscape-Selected Works of Chengyu Ning Garden", "History of Chinese Gardens", "Building Gardens and Mountains", etc. He launched the Ministry of Education's fine video open class "Frontiers of Landscape Architecture"; edited "Landscape Architecture Design", "Modern Landscape Architecture Theory and Practice" series (5 published monographs), and 3 proceedings of "Digital Landscape" series, "Jiangsu Landscape Architecture Art" (Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Jiangsu Province), and published more than 70 academic papers.
He has presided over the completion of 2 general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is working on a key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He presided over the completion of the project "Urban Road Sponge System Construction and Key Technologies" and won the first prize of China Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018. He presided over the completion of more than 100 projects of landscape architecture and landscape architecture design. His planning and design works have won more than 30 national, ministerial, and provincial excellent design awards.
