Plenary Lecture
A Study on Shanghai’s Practice Based on the Organic Evolution Theory of Urban Green Space System
Prof. Lang Zhang
Deputy Chief Engineer of Shanghai Greening and City Appearance Administrative Bureau
Consultant Expert of China Association for Science and Technology
Member of China Standard Technique Committee
Director of Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture
Vice Chairman of Shanghai Landscape Architecture Academy
CHINA
Abstract: Similar to biological evolution, the urban green space system meets essential requirements for evolution as an organic integrity, therefore, rules of biological evolution are still applicable to evolution of urban green space system in some degree. In 2007, Zhang combined “evolutionism” with “urban green space system” and introduced Darwin’s evolutionary ideology to the planning of urban green space system and put forward a new urban green space system development theory “the organic evolution theory of urban green space system”. The theory targets on guiding urban green space planning, construction and management to achieve innovation and promotion of concepts as a kind of self-examination, anticipation and integration of urban green space system planning and construction ideas, Shanghai’s practice is the proof of this theory to verify. Based on the theory, this paper verified the systematic and organic evolution process of Shanghai urban green space system planning from ‘urban green space layout’ to ‘urban green space system’ and then to “city region green space and forest system", finally to "urban ecological network system". From the point of view of ecological network planning, this paper explored urban green space system evolution of decisive significance of the base power, public policy, relationship between urban and rural areas, internal structure, the resources use, genes and their variation to the influence of urban green space system evolution in order to improve urban green space system organic evolution theory system for urban green space system planning construction service.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Lang ZHANG, Born in July, 1964, majors in Landscape Architecture. Personal experience includes: engaging in teaching and scientific research, project practice and professional management, carrying out more than 10 scientific research projects, such as the national natural science funds project, ministerial, provincial, municipal science and technology commission project and international cooperation scientific research project, the 4 projects got ministerial and provincial first, second and third prize of scientific and technological progress award, respectively, getting international prizes for four times including 2010 annual IFLA excellence award and winning a number of state-level, provincial and ministerial excellent design awards, publishing more than 60 original research papers and over 12 monographs.