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Faculty Fellow

Richard Weller

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Professor

Co-Founder, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism & Ecology

About

Richard Weller is the Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout his career he has worked simultaneously as an academic and a consultant specializing in the formative stages of projects ranging from gardens to plazas, memorials, museums, suburbs and waterfronts. He is former director of the design firm Room 4.1.3 and the Australian Urban Design Research Center. His research projects have involved scenario planning for cities, megaregions and nations. His current research concerns urbanization in the world’s biodiversity hotspots. In over 30 years practice he has received a consistent stream of international design competition awards at all scales of landscape architecture and urban design. He has published 4 books and over 90 single-authored papers. Weller sits on the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) in Washington and is the founder and Creative Director of the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture LA+. A devoted teacher, he was honored with an Australian National Teaching Award in 2012 for “sustained commitment to inspiring and enabling students to engage creatively and critically with complex design problems.” He teaches in three subject areas: advanced design studios at all scales, urban design history and theory, and historical and contemporary ideas of Nature. Weller’s designs, research and writing can be found here.

Selected Publications

Weller, Richard. 2017. “Atlas for the End of the World.” http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/.

Weller, Richard. 2014. “Stewardship now? Reflections on Landscape Architecture’s raison d’être in the 21st century.” Landscape Journal 33(2).

Weller, Richard. 2013. Made in Australia: The Future of Australian Cities. UWA Publishing.

Weller, Richard. 2009. Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City. UWA Publishing.

Weller, Richard. 2005. Room 4.1.3: Innovations in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Penn IUR Scholar

Chunxia Yang

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Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

About

Chunxia Yang is an Associate Professor of Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University. She has been active in professional teaching, research and real projects for 15 years. She was awarded “Shanghai Pujiang Talents” in 2011. Her research mainly focuses on urban design and regeneration, waterfront development. She achieves 1 national research program which is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and 2 provincial research programs. She has published 1 book and over 30 papers. She teaches “Urban Design Critics and Cases Studies” and several joint urban design programs between Tongji University and overseas universities and institutes, including Princeton University, Washington University, Vienna University of Technology, etc. She is also in charge of the dual-degree program between Tongji University and Georgia Institute of Technology. She takes charge and takes part in multiple real projects, gets 3 national awards and 9 provincial awards. Recently, her main project of Urban Design for Tangqi old town in Hangzhou was constructed according to the design. The Town has been the model of Urban Regeneration for Chinese historical water town.

Selected Publications

Yang, Chunxia. 2006 (first edition) and 2014 (second edition). The Urban Form and Design of Cross-river Cities. Nanjing: Southeast University Press.

Yang, Chunxia. 2014. Encourage the “Synergetic Development” between Bridge and City——Break Through the Trouble of “City-Bridge Disjointed Design”. Urban Planning. 4: 58-64

Yang, Chunxia and Hu, Yankang. 2014. Optimizing Chinese Motorized Transportation Modes to Support Cross-River Public Activities. Applied Mechanics and Materials. 6: 856-861

Yang, Chunxia and Lu, Jiwei. 2008. Fully Using the Ecological Resources, Optimizing the Organization of Blue, Green and Red Lines in Waterfront Areas. Urban Planning Forum. 5: 102-105

Yang, Chunxia. 2006. The Architectural Consideration of Bridge Design. Architectural Journal. 5: 67-70

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