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Digital Landscape Architecture in Practice

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 9366

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jianhua He

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Guest Editor
School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: spatial modeling; spatial planning; landscape design; landscape ecology
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Dr. Junlong Huang

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College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China
Interests: spatial modeling; landscape ecology; network analysis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Broadly speaking, landscape architecture is a field that applies both creative thinking and scientific knowledge to address environmental and social challenges. Therefore, many issues in landscape architecture fall into the interface between environment and socio-economic systems, which requires systematic thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle. For example, one of the critical issues that landscape architects should focus on is how to avoid the “urban greening paradox”, which refers to the phenomenon of improving community greening whilst causing gentrification for the group of people with inferior socioeconomic status. In a nutshell, the ultimate goal of landscape architecture is to create a more inclusive, sustainable and resilient landscape and in the digital era, advanced remote sensing techniques combined with spatial big data provide powerful tools to deal with these issues, which may be difficult to analyze when following traditional design procedures.

This Special Issue calls for contributions that address landscape architecture issues using digital technology. In particular, papers that leverage spatial big data to characterize urban green space distribution and accessibility, ecosystem services in urban landscapes, and other related topics (see below) are highly welcome.

Topics include but are not limited to:

  • Accessibility of green space and green justice
  • Visit pattern identification using social media data
  • Gentrification
  • Naturalization of nonnative urban plants
  • Homogenization of urban forests
  • Resilience of urban greening under climate change
  • Urban greening management
  • Urban greening design
  • Ecosystem service and disservice of urban fauna and flora
  • Ecosystem service of urban–rural landscapes
  • Original research articles, review articles, and short communications are invited.

Prof. Dr. Jianhua He
Dr. Junlong Huang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban ecology
  • landscape ecology
  • landscape planning
  • resilience
  • green space
  • green justice

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Utilizing Fractal Dimensions as Indicators to Detect Elements of Visual Attraction: A Case Study of the Greenway along Lake Taihu, China
by Rong Fan, Ken P. Yocom and Yeyuan Guo
Land 2023, 12(4), 883; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040883 - 13 Apr 2023
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It is widely acknowledged that the quality of greenway landscape resources enhances the visual appeal of people. While most studies have evaluated visual perception and preference, few have considered the relationship between the distribution of greenways in relation to the proximity of water [...] Read more.
It is widely acknowledged that the quality of greenway landscape resources enhances the visual appeal of people. While most studies have evaluated visual perception and preference, few have considered the relationship between the distribution of greenways in relation to the proximity of water bodies such as lakes and rivers. Such an investigation requires an in-depth analysis of how to plan and design greenways in order to better enhance people’s willingness to access and utilize them. In this research we propose specific color brightness and contour visual attraction elements to further discuss the quality of greenway landscape resources in the rapidly urbanizing Lake Taihu region of China. Specifically, we utilize a common method in fractal theory analysis called counting box dimension to calculate and analyze the sample images. The method generates data on fractal dimension (FD) values of two elements; the optimal fractal dimension threshold range; the characteristics exhibited by the maximum and minimum fractal dimension values in the greenway landscape; and the relationship between the two visual attraction elements allowing us to derive distribution of the greenway and water bodies. The results reveal that greenway segments with high values of the visual attraction element of color brightness fractal dimension (FD) are significantly closer to the lake than those subject to high values of the visual attraction element. Some segments are even close to the lake surface, which is because the glare from the direct sunlight and the reflection from the lake surface superimposed on each other, so that the greenway near the lake surface is also affected by the brightness and shows the result of high color brightness values. However, the greenway segments with high values of contour element FD are clearly more influenced by plants and other landscape elements. This is due to the rich self-similarity of the plants themselves. Most of the greenway segments dominated by contour elements are distant from the lake surface. Both color brightness and contour elements are important indicators of the quality of the visual resources of the Lake Taihu Greenway landscape. This reveals that the determination of the sub-dimensional values of color brightness (1.7608, 1.9337) and contour (1.7230, 1.9006) visual attraction elements and the optimal threshold range (1.7608, 1.9006) can provide theoretical implications for the landscape planning and design of lake-ring type greenways and practical implications for assessing the quality of visual resources in greenway landscapes. Full article
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Industrial Structure Optimization of Wuhan Urban Agglomeration Based on TFP and Industrial Spatial Linkages
by Yan Yu, Xinxin Gao, Wenqing Meng, Yujia He and Chenhe Zhang
Land 2022, 11(10), 1703; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101703 - 30 Sep 2022
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As a complex symbiosis, a reasonable industrial structure of each symbiotic unit within an urban agglomeration (UA) is crucial to the sustainable development of the regional economy. In an urban agglomeration (UA), a reasonable industrial structure is crucial to the sustainable development of [...] Read more.
As a complex symbiosis, a reasonable industrial structure of each symbiotic unit within an urban agglomeration (UA) is crucial to the sustainable development of the regional economy. In an urban agglomeration (UA), a reasonable industrial structure is crucial to the sustainable development of the regional economy. This paper comprehensively considers the industrial total factor productivity (TFP) and the industrial spatial linkages between cities to adjust the industrial structure. Malmquist index (MI) is introduced to assess the industry performance in this paper to judge the development status of the industry. The calculation method for identifying industrial structure similarity is improved by combining it with industrial spatial linkages, to accurately reflect the degree of industrial structure convergence in the UA and to recognize which cities need industrial adjustment. The results from a case study on Wuhan UA showed that the method proposed in this paper can provide objective and specific suggestions for every industrial sector in each member city of the UA on a regional scale, so that the city can give priority to the developing industry with a certain foundation on the premise of avoiding the low resource allocation efficiency. Full article
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Land Use Change under Population Migration and Its Implications for Human–Land Relationship
by Xuan Luo, Zhaomin Tong, Yifan Xie, Rui An, Zhaochen Yang and Yanfang Liu
Land 2022, 11(6), 934; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060934 - 17 Jun 2022
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With the rural-to-urban population migration under the new era of rapid urbanization, China has experienced dramatic rural land change, especially the change in cultivated land and rural residential land, resulting in the serious uncoordinated human–land relationships in rural areas. The efficient use of [...] Read more.
With the rural-to-urban population migration under the new era of rapid urbanization, China has experienced dramatic rural land change, especially the change in cultivated land and rural residential land, resulting in the serious uncoordinated human–land relationships in rural areas. The efficient use of these two kinds of land resources becomes one of the paramount challenges for governments to achieve sustainable and balanced rural development. This challenge highlights the need for quantifying the formation mechanism of the relationship between cultivated land and rural residential land (RCR) and exploring the corresponding relation between human–land relationships with RCR to guide the high-efficiency rural land use structure and coordinated development of human–land relationships. This study aims to quantitatively characterize the matching modes of RCR and the underlying formation mechanism via a grid-based, integrated decoupling model and multiclass explainable boosting machine analysis method. The findings are as follows: (1) The variation in cultivated land and rural residential land is characterized by quantity match and spatial mismatch. The six matching modes of RCR are strong decoupling (SD) (33.36%), weak decoupling (9.86%), recessive decoupling (4.15%), expansive negative decoupling (15.05%), weak negative decoupling (4.92%), and strong negative decoupling (SND) (18.65%). (2) Average grain product per cultivated land and population variation have the highest relative importance and play the greatest role in determining the type of matching modes. A concomitant phenomenon is noted in the matching modes; that is, SD occurs with recessive decoupling and weak negative decoupling, and the weak decoupling and expansive negative decoupling occur with SND in the same conditions. (3) A significant corresponding relationship exists between the matching modes and human–land relationship, indicating that the six matching modes correspond to four different stages of the human–land relationship. The study could provide some decision-making guidance for sustainable rural development, so as to improve the differentiated land management and regional response strategies. Full article
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How Does Quota-Oriented Land Use Planning Affect Urban Expansion? A Spatial Analysis of 280 Chinese Cities
by Lingyu Zhang, Yaolin Liu, Ying Jing and Yang Zhang
Land 2022, 11(4), 528; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040528 - 6 Apr 2022
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As the key tool for land use management in China, land use planning (LUP) is characterized by the advantage of being state-led, quota-oriented, and easily monitored. Nevertheless, increasing research has doubted its effectiveness, particularly in controlling urban expansion, while few studies have empirically [...] Read more.
As the key tool for land use management in China, land use planning (LUP) is characterized by the advantage of being state-led, quota-oriented, and easily monitored. Nevertheless, increasing research has doubted its effectiveness, particularly in controlling urban expansion, while few studies have empirically confirmed it. To this end, we construct a planning constraint index (PCI), supported by land use quota, for evaluating the pressure from LUP on urban expansion, and then analyze the spatial equilibrium of PCI. We also explore the spatial effects of PCI on urban expansion via the geographically weighted regression model (GWR) by collecting the spatial data of 280 prefecture-level cities in China from 2009 to 2016. The results show that: (1) most cities present a shortage of urban land quotas, and spatial disequilibrium exist among regions; (2) PCI has significant negative effects on urban expansion for all of the 280 cities, and spatial disparity of these effects occurs as well; (3) PCI has a stronger influence in southwest China where the economy is relatively backward. This study aims to provide a reference for land use planners and policymakers to help improve the effectiveness of LUP. Full article
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