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Planning

The evolution and understanding of landscape thinking in Taiwan is based on agronomy and horticulture, and with the emergence and development of an agricultural society, our ways of thinking have been reshaped. Twenty years ago, the core of "landscape" was centered around floral garden technology, urban beautification and nature conservation. However, the global outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 ...

Design

As an integral part of the urban ecosystem, landscape architecture plays an important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation, and promoting the construction of low-carbon and resilient cities. Chinese landscape architecture advocates the integration of multi-disciplinary theory and practical experience, and proposes strategies for mitigating flood disasters in urban underground space.

Climate Change
Opinion

The 2021 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described the looming crisis in global warming, and the resultant impacts it will have on environments and communities throughout our world. IFLA believes that the key to solving the climate crisis is vested in the reduction of emissions, in the resilience and transformation of human society and in the sustainability of the ...

Design

There is a policy called Gamuda Parks Biodiversity Policy. In August 2019, Gamuda Parks in collaboration of a panel of experts jointly formulated this policy as a guide to governing the conservation of biodiversity and management of the ecosystem through master planning, design development and maintenance of Gamuda Lands developments.

Standing Committees

Mr. Fumiaki Takano was the President of IFLA-APR from 2019 to 2021. During his term, he ensured the participation of many young Japanese landscape architects in the IFLA’s international activities.

Design

CNHW(禾拓) was founded in 2001 and is widely regarded as one of Taiwan’s leading landscape design firms. The company specializes in environment & landscape planning and design. The name of the company indicates our work philosophy: working closely with different professions to expand the possibilities of creating better environments.

Management

The Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA) is pleased to support a special issue of 'Landscape', on landscape education. The issue features articles outlining a wide range of ideas and opinions around the subject of education for landscape architecture, including a short piece explaining the differences between landscape programme recognition and landscape programme accreditation (p40).

Design

OCULUS is an urban design and landscape architectural practice offering design services to a range of private and public sector clients. Central to our practice is the multidisciplinary nature of our studio, which is made up of landscape architects, urban designers, horticulturists, and architects. Our work addresses the conditions that contribute to the ongoing success of a place: whether they be ...

Opinion
Plastic Bag Joke

Most of you would have heard about the Sixth Assessment Report or AR6, published recently by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC has been releasing these climate assessment reports since 1990. However, the agreement like its predecessor, lacks concrete subsequent climate mitigation actions by governments who signed the climate pledge. The world is currently not on track to ...

Design

NAAW is a design office co-founded by Kentaro Nagano and Alice Wong in 2014. NAAW's focus is to challenge redefining relationships between environment and humans into a new relationship. Topography and climate have had a significant influence on human history and culture. While respecting irreplaceable contexts, NAAW aims to read it anew and expand diversity through geography to the way people ...