定位当代景观设计在中国.doc

Positioning Contemporary Landscape Architecture in China 定位当代景观设计在中国 In an era of multiple unprecedented challenges imposed by the processes of industrialization and urbanization, landscape architecture is now on the verge of change in China. It is time for this profession to take the great opportunity to position itself to play the key role in rebuilding the Land of Peach Blossoms for a new society of urbanized, globalized and inter-connected people. 在工业化和城市化的进程施加多个前所未有的挑战的时代，园林建筑，现已在中国发生变化的边缘。 现在是时候让这个行业采取的很好的机会，摆正自己的位置，以重建桃花源为城市化，全球化和相互联系的人们一个新的社会中发挥的关键作用。 The role of agriculture has declined in Chinas urban-centered economy, along with the skills and the art of agricultural cultivation and stewardship. This process began with the classical scholar garden art from thousands of years ago, and has now spread to civic art and landscape design. Land design, once the kings art, has descended into the realm of the trivial. 农业的作用有所下降，中国城市为中心的经济，随着技能和农业种植和管理的艺术。 这个过程开始于从几千年前的古典学者园林艺术，现在已经蔓延到民间艺术和景观设计。 土地的设计，曾经的王者的艺术，已经陷入琐碎的境界。 We see thousands of landscape architects compete for a tiny piece of land in the city. Simultaneously, our rivers run dry and polluted, underground water continues to drop every day, and in the north sand storms are affecting the areas arable land. Each year, the processes of urbanization and materialization lure one percent (approximately 13 million people) of the Chinese population to abandon their Land of Peach Blossoms and rush into the city. This process has expanded urban boundaries and encroached on agricultural land. 我们看到成千上万的景观建筑师在城市争夺这块小小的土地。 同时，我们的河流干涸和污染，地下水持续下降每一天，并在北方沙尘暴正在影响该地区的耕地。 每年，城市化和物化的诱惑中国人口的百分之一（约13万人）的过程中放弃桃花源他们的土地和涌入城市。 这个过程已经扩大城市边界和侵占农业用地。 The sacred Feng Shui forests have been cut and replaced with ornamental flowers. The grave yards of our ancestors have been leveled and their remains abandoned or removed to the planned cemeteries. Ponds outside the former villages have been filled, and whole settlements wiped out a