Urban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children's physical and psychological health, particularly in cities. Now children's mentality and safety, and the freedom of traveling and playing have raised concerns in society. In this issue, trans-disciplinary discussions between scholars and practitioners in landscape architecture and environmental psychology, environmental behaviors, human engineering, public health, etc., as well as city managers, would be encouraged to explore the ways to improve urban environments for children's outdoor activities. With such a multi-disciplinary coverage, this issue aims to update landscape architects' theoretical and methodological approaches to issues of children and urban environments, with a deeper understanding of their disciplinary competences, limitations, and challenges thus to find out their irreplaceable role in guaranteeing children's well-beings.
About the Author :
Kongjian Yu
is a doctor of design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
University and an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, as well as a professor for the College of
Architecture and Landscape at Peking University.
Helen Woolley is an associated professor for the department of landscape architecture at the University of Sheffield.
Stella Christie
is an associate professor for the department of psychology at Tsinghua
University, a research chair of Tsinghua laboratory of brain and
intelligence, and the director of the child cognition centre of Tsinghua
laboratory of brain and intelligence.
John Zacharias
is a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape at Peking
University and the director of the laboratory for urban process
modelling and applications at Peking University.
Guangsi Lin
is a professor and PhD supervisor for the department of landscape
architecture, School of Architecture, South China University of
Technology, as well as the fellow of the state key laboratory of
subtropical building science and Guangzhou municipal key laboratory of
landscape architecture.
Yao Shen is a doctor of
environmental gardening at Chiba University and is associate professor
for the department of urban and rural planning at the School of
Architecture, Hunan University.
Xiaoxuan Lu is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
