{"62232":{"#nid":"62232","#data":{"type":"news","title":"COA Research Forum: Dr. Perry Yang, \u0022 Ecological Urbanism: Scale, Flow and Design Advocates Ecological Systems Design as Path to Sustainable Cities\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1853\/35129\/yang_streaming.html?sequence=2\u0022\u003EView this lecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech architecture and planning professor Perry Yang says environmental science is essential to sustainable urban design in his new book \u003Cem\u003EEcological Urbanism: Scale, Flow and Design\u003C\/em\u003E (China Architecture and Building Press). The book points to the overuse of the term \u201csustainability,\u201d and suggests a renewed approach in which ecology can regenerate urban environments. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTraditional urban design treats ecology in cities as ways of preserving or adding ecological elements such as green spaces to urban environment,\u201d said Yang. \u201cEcological systems design advocates ecology by design, an inherently ecology-structured urban system.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYang presents three approaches to putting this into practice:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScale:\u003C\/strong\u003E to study the interrelated scales and contexts of cities and regions; urban structures; landscape units; and architectural spaces.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlow: \u003C\/strong\u003Eto analyze ecological flows (energy, material, water, pedestrian and informational flows) to better predict environmental consequences of planning and design decisions, and to argue for flows to generate form instead of form following function.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesign:\u003C\/strong\u003E to embrace nature in urban environments by manipulating urban spatial configuration and managing modes of ecological flows. In other words, using urban design as an ecological intervention.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/35129\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESee Yang discuss the book in the College of Architecture Research Forum\u003C\/a\u003E. The book is written in both Chinese and English and available for purchase at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.xhsmb.com\/Item\/95533.aspx\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.xhsmb.com\/Item\/95533.aspx\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EYang is an associate professor appointed jointly to the Schools of Architecture and City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. A practicing designer, he has received numerous awards in international competitions, including first prizes in the 2009 World Games Park at Kaohsiung City of Taiwan (2005); the Eco-city design at Maluan Bay at Xiamen of China (2007); and the\nGreen Heart design at Shunde, Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta Region of China (2010). He serves on the board of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE), and recently co-organized UPE\u2019s international symposium in Guangzhou, China.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech architecture and planning professor Perry Yang says environmental science is essential to sustainable urban design in his new book.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2010-10-18 16:19:34","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:38","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61134":{"id":"61134","type":"image","title":"Ecological Urbanism: Scale, Flow and Design","body":null,"created":"1449176308","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:28","changed":"1475894531","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:11","alt":"Ecological Urbanism: Scale, Flow and Design","file":{"fid":"191279","name":"Ecological-Urbanism.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ecological-Urbanism_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Ecological-Urbanism_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":75473,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Ecological-Urbanism_0.jpg?itok=VH0QJmpV"}}},"media_ids":["61134"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"137","name":"Architecture"}],"keywords":[{"id":"175","name":"Architecture"},{"id":"479","name":"Green Buzz"},{"id":"167125","name":"sustainable design"},{"id":"227","name":"urban design"},{"id":"2991","name":"Urban Planning"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404.385.2156\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}