《传统哲学在建设中国城市可持续发展模型中的探索性分析（英文）》.pdf

Available online at Procedia Engineering Procedia Engineering 00 (2011) 000–000 /locate/procedia Exploratory analysis of the traditional philosophy underpinned urban sustainability model for Chinese cities a∗ a a Wenli Dong , Jamie Mackee , Michael Mak a School of Architecture and Built Environment, the University of Newcastle,Callaghan, NSW2308, Australia. Abstract The Holistic Sustainability Evaluation Framework for Chinese Cities discusses the overlapping worldviews of the east and west to provide better understanding on how systems theory could be applied on sustainability evaluation methods, based on the indigenous philosophies of China. After collecting the qualitative data of thirteen large urban design projects in four distinct Chinese cities, this paper tries to find out how the traditional philosophy and western models were underpinning the urban practices in Chinese cities, and to further establish the sustainability evaluation model. The future work is to validate this framework by testing an external case in China. 1. Introduction Chinese traditions offer conceptual resources for ecological thinking by placing economics within a wider socio-ecological fabric, emphasizing soft technologies, challenging meta-economic assumptions, and encouraging systemic wisdom [1]. The Ch