@article{1431132,
      recid = {1431132},
      author = {Kelly, Ashley Scott, and Lu, Xiaoxuan,},
      title = {Critical landscape planning during the Belt and Road  Initiative /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Singapore :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {This open access book traces the development of landscapes  along the 414-kilometer ChinaLaos Railway, one of the first  infrastructure projects implemented under Chinas Belt and  Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at  the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape  architecture and intended for planners and related  professionals engaged in the development and conservation  of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning  pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working  alongside the often-opaque planning, design and  implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It  complicates simplistic notions of development and  urbanization frequently reproduced in the LaosChina  frontier region. Many of the projects and sites  investigated in this book are recent firsts in Laos: Laoss  first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species,  its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for  a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices  of neoliberal development, the planning and design  professions, including landscape architecture, have little  dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or  critical social sciences that form the discourse of  projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse  conceptions and issues of development, including cultural  and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China,  nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this  book also features nine planning proposals for Laos  generated through this research initiative since the  railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a  wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys  landscape architectures spatial and ecological acumen to  synthesize critical development studies with the planner's  capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the  ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious  engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment  disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering  and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of  development institutions and environmental NGOs},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1431132},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4067-4},
}