Landsenses ecological planning for the Xianghe Segment of China’s Grand Canal

ABSTRACT

Traditional methods of urban planning mainly focus on urban land, population size and transport priorities, and fail to consider environmental quality and welfare. To build a suitable urban form for future residents, urban eco-planners should consider the various data and technologies available, especially a resident’s sensitivity in their planning. Rational and scientific planning needs comprehensive analysis of urban ecosystems, including both natural and human factors. The new concept and theory, ‘landsenses’, can help urban planners to integrate human sensitivity into their blueprint. Excellent eco-planning should include all forms of human senses, that is sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. Based on the framework of landsenses ecology, we tentatively made a landsenses ecological planning for the Xianghe Segment of China’s Grand Canal (XSCGC), in which we addressed the importance and challenges to incorporate a resident’s sensory information into the ecological planning process, to promote the use of mix-marching data and the Internet of Things.

KEYWORDS:

• Ecological planning
• Internet of Things
• landsenses ecology
• sustainable development
• Grand Canal
• GIS

Acknowledgements

We thank colleagues for their help. Many people from various enterprises contributed to this project in crucial ways. The study would have been impossible without the students and faculty of the CITIC Guoan Group in Xianghe.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Supporting Program of the 12th Five-Year Plan for Science and Technology Research of China [2013BAJ04B03] and State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology [SKLURE2013-1-05] of China.