Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape archi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kelly, Ashley Scott, Lu, Xiaoxuan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Pedagogy of Critical Landscape Planning
  • From Golden Triangle to Economic Quadrangle
  • Locating discourses and narratives for intervention
  • Material sourcing and human-environment resiliency
  • Chinese mass nature tourism and ecotourism
  • Western alternative development and Chinese development
  • Northern scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge
  • Infrastructural connectivity and geographic difference