Landscape Construction Research Articles

Design of the 3D Digital Reconstruction System of an Urban Landscape Spatial Pattern Based on the Internet of Things

Given the rapid development of modern science and technology, people are no longer satisfied with the planar composition and two-dimensional (2D) composition. Moreover, digitalization has entered the spatial layout of urban landscapes. The three-dimensional (3D) digital reconstruction technology can obtain the 3D effect map of urban garden landscapes, thereby improving the scientificity and timeliness of garden design. It is an important research direction in the field of computer vision. It transforms two or more planar graphics into visible 3D geometric graphics. It also restores their spatial coordinates and color information. The appearance of 3D digital reconstruction technology provides real-time and efficient information for landscape design, cost, and construction; improves the efficiency of landscape construction; and saves construction costs.

An Update of the Literature Supporting the Economic Benefits of Plants: Part 2 – Increased Property Values

AbstractThis paper provides a review of the key research efforts that provide evidence of one of the more prominent economic benefits associated with plants and improved landscaped areas – improved property values. These benefits may persuade reluctant residential homeowners to purchase plants and improve their landscapes, may aid municipal leaders and policymakers in justifying green infrastructure-related funding decisions, and may provide grounds for the landscape and general construction industries for using biophilic design principles to ensure the built environment offers opportunities for green space interactions. In this way, the green industry can play a pivotal role not only in providing quality plants for these applications, but in educating stakeholders regarding the economic benefits discussed herein. This research should also be strategically incorporated into both industry-wide and firm-specific marketing messages that highlight the quality-of-life value proposition in order to maintain the industry's sense of value and relevance to residential and municipal landscape consumers of the future. If implemented effectively, the demand for green industry products and services may be affected positively.

Relevance and Role of Contemporary Architecture Preservation—Assessing and Evaluating Architectural Heritage as a Contemporary Landscape: A Study Case in Southern Italy

Since WWII to the 2000s, numerous masters of contemporary architecture have contributed to the construction of new landscapes with their works; therefore, these places have become part of a changing landscape and of the multifaceted process of landscape generation. Nevertheless, during this fifty-year period, capitalism has led to the destruction of many existing landscapes, and the policies of protection and preservation have often entailed a process of musealization. In 2000, the European Landscape Convention adopted a new common-grounded definition of landscape, integrating a wide set of cultural approaches and disciplinary topics. Starting from the assumption that contemporary architecture and urban projects can generate high-quality landscapes, this paper investigates the link between the architecture and the landscape, taking the opportunity to catalogue the second half of twentieth-century architecture and urban projects in Sicily as part of the national cataloguing activity “Ereditare il Presente” promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Using the Ministry-proposed cataloguing procedure and adding a quality assessment methodology of buildings and urban projects, this study has produced a theoretical and applicative advancement on how architecture and urban projects of the second half of the twentieth century should be offered as a dynamic component of sustainable human settlement planning under SDG11 “sustainable cities and communities”.

Agrevolutions. Esempi di coevoluzione nel paesaggio agrario tra Sardegna e Portogallo

The paper refers to research and projects shared between Sardinian and Portuguese agricultural landscapes which, starting from the continuous investigation of this common cultural matrix, try to trace an evolutionary line of the historicized ways of co-evolutionary landscape construction and foreshadow some possible scenarios of continuity.In particular, the paper will focus on two projects by the Global Arquitectura Pajsagista studio in Alentejo, in which the approach to the study of the place can refer to a multi-scale methodology that links the study of the historical uses of agricultural landscapes, with the understanding of physical structures and evolution of vegetation cover foreshadowing a new idea of space starting from the interaction between man and these two dominant ones. With respect to these two topics declined in the “man-soil” and “man-living beings” relationship, it can be said that agricultural projects - and this is historically true, but even more so today - argued exactly the necessary meeting between utilitarian practices and symbolic of the primary productive activities of man with the “self poietic” and “ecological” regenerative dynamics of a specific way of organizing the terrestrial space. The presented cases, in fact, try to show the landscape design ability, into the rural Mediterranean areas, to activate co-evolution processes between the regeneration of agricultural soils and the human needs of inhabiting linked to leisure and refreshment.

Push and pull in the sustainable development of ecological landscape and ecological resources: A dual perceptions of tourists and service staff

AbstractThe protection of the ecological landscape and the development of ecological resources are vital in the development of the global green economy, Their win‐win coordinated development is influenced by factors such as nature, culture, and economy, and more attention should be placed on tourist perception and sustainable resource development. Previous studies have mainly focused on a single perspective and failed to comprehensively consider the coordinated relationship between ecological landscape and ecological resources. This research combined push‐and‐pull theory and applied empirical analysis to verify the structure of tourists' perceptions and the law of sustainable development of resources related to the development of ecological landscape in the new era. It extracted and analyzed 34 influencing factors and applied the analytic network process (ANP) to analyze each factor's weights, to propose an evaluation system for eco‐tourism sustainability development that can help the construction of ecological landscape in the future. The reconstruction and further development of eco‐tourism in the new era is reflected in the ideological and practical dimensions; from single‐perspective linear thinking to multi‐dimensional integrated governance; from conflict between resources conservation and development to collaboration; from isolated management to building a community with a shared future; and showing the transformation and innovation at multiple levels of individual, community, government and national governance.

Presentation and Translation of the Linguistic Landscape in the Sichuan Museum and the Spread of the Ba-Shu Culture from the Perspective of Cultural Communication

Linguistic landscape is a new perspective to study the spread of regional culture. The Sichuan museum is an important platform to spread the Ba-Shu culture, and the presentation and translation of the linguistic landscape in it carries a wealth of historical and cultural information, which is of great significance in promoting the inheritance and communication of the Ba-Shu culture. Based on the theoretical framework of place semiotics, this study uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the linguistic landscape in the Sichuan museum. Meanwhile, aimed at promote the high-quality dissemination of Ba-Shu culture, this research also points out the problems in the construction and translation of linguistic landscapes in the Sichuan museum and put forward corresponding suggestions and strategies for improvement in the future.

Innovation and Development: An Analysis of Landscape Construction Factors in Quanzhou Maritime Silkroad Art Park

From the perspective of tourists, this paper takes Quanzhou Maritime Silkroad Art Park as the research object to study the botanical landscape factors concerned with tourists in the theme park. Through a questionnaire survey, and combined with interviews, the collected results were scientifically analysed using the data. According to the statistical results, the factors of plant landscape construction in the theme park concerned with tourists were summarised, extracted, and named, which were “plant landscape healing”, “plant landscape culture”, “plant landscape continuity”, “plant landscape spatial sense”, and “plant landscape aesthetic sense”. Through an in-depth analysis of the five common factors of the construction of modern theme park plant landscapes, this study creatively centred on the construction of theme park landscapes and established a scientific evaluation system, combined with the development and construction of the park, and put forward innovative and constructive suggestions based on the summary and analysis results. It provides a scientific reference for plant landscape construction in other theme parks.

The Relationship between the Color Landscape Characteristics of Autumn Plant Communities and Public Aesthetics in Urban Parks in Changsha, China

Contemporary landscape architecture studies have paid close attention to the interactions between public aesthetic preferences and the landscape environment. Scenic beauty has become an important evaluation indicator of landscape quality. The quality of the plant color landscape is an important factor affecting scenic beauty. Exploring the relationship between the composition rules and internal properties of autumn plant color landscapes in urban parks and public aesthetic preferences can provide new ideas for the evaluation and design of plant community color landscapes. Taking 12 parks in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China, as the study area and 85 plant communities as the sample plots, scenic beauty estimation (SBE) was used to evaluate the autumn plant color landscape of urban parks. ColorImpact software was used to extract the color values of each plant community. Fifteen original color element indicators were determined, and the data were statistically analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA), one-way ANOVA, multiple comparison analysis and systematic cluster analysis. Four principal components were extracted to construct the characteristic indices and a comprehensive model of the color landscape quality of autumn plant communities. The four characteristic indices showed significant or extremely significant differences among the five SBE grades. From the overall trend, the SBE grades showed a positive correlation with PC1 (primary and adjunctive color index), PC2 (color structure and property index) and PC3 (autumn-color-leafed index) and a negative correlation with PC4 (intersperse color index). RPH (ratio of primary hue), RP (ratio of primary color), RC (color-leafed index), RWC (ratio of warm and cool colors), and NC (number of colors) were the key factors affecting the SBE grade. Overall, RPH, RP, RC, and RWC positively influenced the SBE values, while NC negatively influenced the SBE values, and five to seven colors were more moderate. The quality of the color landscape can be improved by creating plant communities with three types of color composition: warm-toned dominant type, warm- and cold-toned contrast type, and multicolor harmonic type. The results provide a reference for the evaluation, design and construction of autumn plant color landscapes in urban parks.

Wetland Park Planning and Management Based on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Tieling Lotus Lake National Wetland Park (LLNWP), China.

The valuation of wetland ecosystem services and the construction of environmental landscapes are generally recognized as contributing to the sustainable development of human wellbeing. The valuation of ecosystem services plays an important role in planning for the recovery of degraded wetlands and in urban wetland park management; however, the role of the valuation of ecosystem services is always ignored. To bring more intuitive awareness to the importance of the ecological functions of wetlands and to rationally plan wetland parks, the Lotus Lake National Wetland Park (LLNWP), an urban wetland park in Northeast China, was selected as the study area. We referred to the millennium ecosystem assessment (MA) method and calculated the valuation of this park using the market value, benefit transfer, shadow engineering, carbon tax, and travel cost. ArcGIS was used for remote sensing interpretation. The research results were as follows. LLNWP was classified under seven types of land-use. The functions of the ecosystem services included provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural services, and their total value in LLNWP was 11.68×108 CNY. Regarding the per-unit area value of the ecological service functions of different land types, it was found that forest swamp > herbaceous swamp > artificial wetland > permanent river > floodplain wetland. Combined with the characteristics of the functions of its ecosystem's services, LLNWP was divided into ecological and socio-cultural functions. Then, according to the main service functions of the different land types, we propose that the space in LLNWP can be reused, and proposal planning and management suggestions can be made with the aim of preserving the basic functions.

Exploring the mechanism of empathy on lens language and linguistic landscape on movie-induced tourism: The moderating effect of cultural differences.

Since the development of film-induced tourism, scholars have increasingly shifted their attention to examining film-induced tourism from different perspectives. However, little research has been devoted to the underlying mechanisms by which audiences empathize with movie scenes. Current research believes that the lens language of movies is helpful for the communication between the movie and the audience. It not only helps the audience to shape the imagination of the movie scene, but also contributes to the construction of a virtual language landscape, and promotes the audience's cognition of the movie scene. Bringing their emotions and self-expression into the story ultimately enhances the audience's perception of where it was filmed. In exploring the framework of the transformation of empathy in lens language to landscape language, cultural differences are also proposed as the boundary conditions for the relationship between lens language and empathy. Structural equation modeling with PLS-SEM was employed to test the proposed hypotheses. The findings suggest that lens language positively predicts language landscape and empathy positively mediates the aforementioned relationship. Furthermore, the interaction term of cultural differences amplifies the relationship between lens language and empathy. Finally, we discuss theoretical and practical implications.

An improved approach for calculating energy landscape of gene networks from moment equations.

The energy landscape theory has widely been applied to study the stochastic dynamics of biological systems. Different methods have been developed to quantify the energy landscape for gene networks, e.g., using Gaussian approximation (GA) approach to calculate the landscape by solving the diffusion equation approximately from the first two moments. However, how high-order moments influence the landscape construction remains to be elucidated. Also, multistability exists extensively in biological networks. So, how to quantify the landscape for a multistable dynamical system accurately, is a paramount problem. In this work, we prove that the weighted summation from GA (WSGA), provides an effective way to calculate the landscape for multistable systems and limit cycle systems. Meanwhile, we proposed an extended Gaussian approximation (EGA) approach by considering the effects of the third moments, which provides a more accurate way to obtain probability distribution and corresponding landscape. By applying our generalized EGA approach to two specific biological systems: multistable genetic circuit and synthetic oscillatory network, we compared EGA with WSGA by calculating the KL divergence of the probability distribution between these two approaches and simulations, which demonstrated that the EGA provides a more accurate approach to calculate the energy landscape.

Environmental landscape design and planning system based on computer vision and deep learning

Abstract Environmental landscaping is known to build, plan, and manage landscapes that consider the ecology of a site and produce gardens that benefit both people and the rest of the ecosystem. Landscaping and the environment are combined in landscape design planning to provide holistic answers to complex issues. Seeding native species and eradicating alien species are just a few ways humans influence the region’s ecosystem. Landscape architecture is the design of landscapes, urban areas, or gardens and their modification. It comprises the construction of urban and rural landscapes via coordinating the creation and management of open spaces and economics, finding a job, and working within a confined project budget. There was a lot of discussion about global warming and water shortages. There is a lot of hope to be found even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. AI is becoming more significant in many urban landscape planning and design elements with the advent of web 4.0 and Human-Centred computing. It created a virtual reality-based landscape to create deep neural networks (DNNs) to make deep learning (DL) more user-friendly and efficient. Users may only manipulate physical items in this environment to manually construct neural networks. These setups are automatically converted into a model, and the real-time testing set is reported and aware of the DNN models that users are producing. This research presents a novel strategy for combining DL-DNN with landscape architecture, providing a long-term solution to the problem of environmental pollution. Carbon dioxide levels are constantly checked when green plants are in and around the house. Plants, on either hand, remove toxins from the air, making it easier to maintain a healthy environment. Human-centered Artificial Intelligence-based web 4.0 may be used to assess and evaluate the data model. The study findings can be sent back into the design process for further modification and optimization.

MEMORY AND OBLIVION: TANGIBLE IMAGES AND UTOPIA

The thesis of W. Benjamin on the concept of History echoes as almost an anti-postmodernism manifesto: the approach to the past is structured through images, not narratives. Indeed, in the tension between history (the universal past rooted in agreed replicable methodologies for a human archetype) and memory (the ego or sociocentric past rooted in individual experiences), egos design narratives and try to fit evidence into them, whereas the historical past is constantly reconstructed through zooming in details that generate new images. The image in history, as the mental image in individuals, is not a layer of arrival, nor even a point of departure, but a vehicle of transformation of how space is perceived (as Kant argued) or constructed (following Bachelard), the phenomenological process of performing tasks in space being the driver of such construction (as argued by Ingold). The design of history through images is, in this sense, the process of social construction of cultural landscapes, i.e., of the poetics of space. This is a process that encompasses four mechanisms of change: identification (based on senses and, primarily, on touch and sound), adaptation (the Kantian perception of the space as the scenario of human aptitude), transformation (the poetics of the making, creating new landscapes by changing their core images) and method (namely the dialectics of tangible and intangible dimensions). The tension between image and narrative is, ultimately, the root of the tension between ego/socio-centered memories and the anthropic-rational history. In such a process, history builds from memories, by overcoming their narratives and preserving basic units of information that may be recombined, to create novel images of the past, but also of the present and the future. In such a process, history considers memory oblivion and an indicator of reliability or not of those memories. In this paper we discuss how material culture is the backbone of mental images and why it has a much more plastic and transformative nature than intangible narratives, which are expressions of the consolidation (and conservation) of understandings. The keyword in such a memory process is oblivion: images allow us to forget fossil narratives and to move into new utopias.

Rationally Controlling Selective Steroid Hydroxylation via Scaffold Sampling of a P450 Family

Many steroids are important pharmaceutically active compounds, while cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs) are attractive enzymes for applications in steroidal drug synthesis. However, the catalytic efficiency of existing P450s is not routinely high enough, as well as the molecular basis for selectivity control is unclear, which severely restrict their real applications. Here, a 16β steroid-hydroxylase CYP109B4 from Bacillus sonorensis is identified with excellent selectivity and activity. The crystallization and structural analysis of CYP109B4 reveal potential three “hotspot” residues (V84, V292, and S387) responsible for selectivity control. Then, guided by the sequence–function relationships revealed from the mutability landscape construction on the three residues, focused rational iterative site-specific mutagenesis (FRISM) and limited iterative saturation mutagenesis were performed, which provide variant B4-M7 (L240V/S387F/V84L/V292S/I291T/M290F/F294I) with completely switched regioselectivity from 16β to 15β. The subsequent computational analysis uncovers insights into the substrate binding modes in CYP109B4 and its variants, which further confirms the critical role of the “hotspot” residues for selectivity control. Finally, the generality of conserved-“hotspots”-mediated selectivity control is demonstrated by performing scaffold sampling between a panel of CYP109B members. Overall, in addition to the present chemical results, our study provides guidance in rationally designing more excellent P450 biocatalysts for potential practical (industrial) applications.

园林绿化施工中的反季节种植技术

园林绿化施工中的反季节种植技术

Exploring Maternalism: Brigitte Bardot, Baby Seals, and Contemporary Hegemonies of the Female Hero

Imperial tales of heroic exploration have had long-lasting effects on the construction of colonial landscapes and of hegemonies of masculinity centered on whiteness, physical strength, and endurance. This paper examines the renewal of such heroic polar explorer narratives in recent times, and how recurring stories tend to re-create as well as produce new hegemonies around gender and race. Through a case study of the expedition of Brigitte Bardot on the Canadian ice shield in 1977 with the intent of saving baby seals, this paper looks at neocolonial implications of a contemporary polar expedition narrative as told by a female “hero”. We argue that BB’s story is “maternalist” in that it is symbolically benevolent but reaffirms colonial authority on Inuit lands and practices based on a discourse of moral virtue and emotional care. Interestingly, the framing of seal pups as “babies” has constructed the act of sealing as gendered and motherhood as an important standpoint for both anti-sealing activism and Inuit pro-sealing resistance.

The Development Status and Trends of Urban Lighting Masterplans in China - A Qualitative Study Using NVivo Software

In recent years，with the development of nighttime economy, the rising demand for characteristic city image, and the emergence of advanced and intelligent lighting technologies, the construction of urban night landscapes in China has entered a new period. Chinese municipal governments have started to introduce new urban lighting masterplans to meet the new demands of urban development. This paper takes the latest urban lighting masterplan texts released by 20 Chinese cities since 2017 as the research object, and uses NVivo software to conduct coding visual analysis, matrix analysis and cluster analysis on the masterplan texts to summarize the principles, objectives, construction contents, implementation and guarantee policies of these new urban lighting masterplans, and compare them with the previous lighting masterplans. Finally, extracting the focus of China's urban lighting construction and its future development direction, providing a basis for the formulation of urban night landscape policies and industry standard systems.

Visual perception of traditional Village Landscape: An Eye Tracking Experiment

In order to objectively quantify the visual perception of traditional village landscape, 50 university students were recruited to make eye-tracking experiment of different landscape elements in the countryside and analyze the data to assess the attractiveness of different elements. Eye-tracking experiment quantifies the experimental information. The experimental results show that mountain and landscape structure can mostly attract attention of observers in actual observation process, but this result is different from subjective preference of questionnaire. By comparing the results of eye-tracking experiment and questionnaire, it can be concluded that the observation time of landscape elements depends on the proportion of elements in space; subjective preference depends on the observation time of landscape elements. Therefore, eye-tracking data can assess subjective preference of observers for the landscape, and then have a certain guiding role for the planning and construction of rural landscape.

The Construction of Linguistic Landscape on Campus from the Perspective of Cultural Inheritance and Innovation

The Construction of Linguistic Landscape on Campus from the Perspective of Cultural Inheritance and Innovation

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT "QIRQQIZ” CASTLE LOCATED IN TERMIZ DISTRICT

This article provides general information about the " Qirqqiz " fortress, an architectural monument of ancient urban planning, which was built in the past in the territory of Termiz district of Surkhondarya region and a part of it has been preserved until today. The origin of the term "Qirqqiz", legends and historical sources about the " Qirqqiz " fortress monument are explained. Providing information about the ancient architectural monument, interested in the field, students, researchers, building and construction architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture, design and construction of highways, design and construction of water structures, tourism, oriental studies, archeology and history, etc. increases the interest of students and representatives of peoples of the whole world in architectural monuments. I wish success to students and young professionals who are hungry for knowledge, in their quest to study history and create the architecture of the future!