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May 21st, 2011
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Landscape design in transformation of the territory
Action for the environment restoration, renewal and recovery
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Arch. Jie Hu
Design concept: Transformation from Brownfield to Green Park Tangshan Nanhu Central Park is an urban public space focused primarily on the ecological restoration of a subsidence area. The natural environment, historical culture and needs of modern civilization were considerations that were integrated into the landscape design, based on thorough research and comprehensive analysis of the site and its surroundings. Existing essential landscape elements including mountains, water and wetlands were preserved, restored and reconstructed to form a holistically spatial structure with artificial spaces, creating an ecological security structure organically composed of natural and artificial components.
Tangshan is a heavy industry city and it is regarded as the cradle of Chinese modern industry. Coal mining is the citys leading industry. Today, Tangshan has become the largest production base for coking coal in China. However, while contributing to the prosperity of Tangshan, the coal mining industry also brought many problems for the city: a subsidence area in the urban central region has expanded to 17.34km, which is 17.86% of the land available for urban construction, and the area increases1.3 km every year as the coal mining activity continues. It has created a variety of impacts on the urban ecological environment and peoples lives and has seriously restricted the utilization and expansion of urban space. Nanhu Central Park is located 1 km south of the city center of Tangshan, in a 6.3 km designated area. An existing underground coal field below the park site formed a large area of mined out space after more than 130 years of mining activity. In 1976, Tangshan suffered a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, and the excavated area subsided seriously, causing severe surface disturbance. 
Consequently, Nanhu became the area most influenced by the Tangshan coal mining subsidence. After the earthquake, Tangshan started post-disaster reconstruction, but coal mining continued, based on the principle of economic production first, quality of life later. Because of the large subsidence and resumed mining activity, Nanhu could only be used to dump urban waste. It became a ruined area and safety hazard. By 2006, the subsidence area caused by coal mining activities had grown to 28 km. 
After 30 years of post-disaster reconstruction, Tangshan city had developed rapidly and finally had become the economic center of the Bohai region. However, Nanhu was still filled with urban, construction, and industrial waste, as well as domestic sewage. In the last 30 years, Collapse (caused by earthquake), subsidence (caused by coal mining), and the dumping of industrial waste and municipal refuse made the Nanhu area a typical urban brownfield. 
With Nanhu as a boundary, Tangshans southward expansion stopped abruptly. In 2008, China Seismological Bureau and Coal Science Research Institute did a comprehensive analysis and research regarding the geological structure and potential risk of continued coal mining subsidence in Nanhu, which announced: most of the Nanhu area is in a subsidence stability period, and has already met prerequisites for constructive development. Accordingly, the Tangshan government proposed a strategy of constructing Nanhu Eco-city, intended to transform what was previously an urban wasteland into a world class new eco-city.
Arch. gnes Herczeg - Ars Topia Foundation
Once upon a time far, far behind the woods and the river Maros, in the land of the fairies and giants next to the river Olt, on the foot of the mountains, before ten years there was an ambitious group of people, which started the reconstruction of the peoples baths during the community building camaraderie... If we stroll along the east side of the region, we find a lot of fountains and remains of traditional peoples baths. 
This landscape has a hidden but huge treasure, these mineral water springs, which the vernacular calls wine water springs. These springs are a result of the former volcanic activity in the regions terrain. The water of the fountains is very cold and has a significant curative power. That is why the people of this region always used the water of curative springs for their physical troubles. The curative springs are unobtrusively and simply matching the landscape, as the bathes, the inhabitants created around them are. During an official recreation program our office did a survey on the landscape features of the region, its curative springs and the baths in 2000. Through that in 2001 the first community building camaraderie of landscape architects, architects and the inhabitants of the village was possible. Also students of landscape architecture took part. All the attendants worked voluntarily. The first bath reconstruction took place on the edge of the village. Here we built the Birch Bath. The movement of the community building camaraderie still exists until today and grows every year. Until today 13 of the bath constructions could be implemented. The bath and community building camaraderie is a regional sort of work. It is volunteer work, which is based on love and during the work process every single attendant gives as much as he can to the joint work. They give their handicraft skills, materials, accommodation or food and prayer. The arriving volunteers and the inhabitants of the village do the reconstruction of the bath in collaboration. They build almost only with wood. The constructions are pools for the curative fountains or gazebos, pavilions, fountain houses, changing rooms, information systems and willow buildings. Every bath is a spiritual place, where next to the bodys cure also ones spirit can cure. That is why we deal very respectfully and conservatively with natures features and treasures. The community can bring the bath and community building camaraderie to life like it did in former times. We can experience the meaning of lovely work: the work, which is performed with and for each other, the power of communitys alliance, the joy of a joint creation, the richness of nature and the diversity of mineral water. 
The landscapes, which we admire for their diversity, their beauty and their nature, mean new adventures for most of us. Landscapes are a mirror of the people living inside of them, and those peoples connection to their landscape. This portrait of a landscape is constantly changing. We think it is important, to get to know the values of a landscape and the peoples liability. Based on these values we can evaluate our society or community. It depends on us, how they develop. The character, diversity, productivity and the possibility of the preservation of a landscape is in the hands of the community living inside of it. Lets live hand in hand with our landscapes!
Arch. Virginio Melaranci - Arch. Cristina d'Angelo - Arch. Alessandro Amici
The configuration of this large park, in the surroundings of Rome, where Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his co-workers worked, is determined by an informal and organic spatial sensibility, which gradually led to the making of a large barco (a sort of a private hunting, typical of Italian Renaissance gardens), originally without a proper garden.
An ancient owner, intellectual prince, at the end of 700, wished to preserve the wildness and the picturesque aspects of the park by excluding any silvicultural activitiy and even, avoiding to take away the woods of the fallen trees.
The Grand Tour vogue brought many Italians and foreign visitors to know the Roman countryside, including this barco. Among these Turner, Fries, Corot, Frommel and many others, but also poets and writers such as Goethe, Stendhal, Seume, Sand, D'Annunzio. Goethe in 1787 writes: "...Ci siamo soffermati allingresso di un parco, tenuto (non dico mantenuto) dal suo proprietario, , nel modo pi strano: costui non vuol nemmeno che i passanti vi diano pi che uno sguardo. Intanto vi si formato un vero groviglio: alberi e cespugli, erbacce e tralci crescono come vogliono, si fan secchi, cadono, marciscono. E tutto va bene, e tutto anzi va per il meglio... Sarebbe un quadro del pi grande effetto, se lo volesse fare un vero artista".
Between the nineteenth and twentieth century the several interventions in the park, by the nobles owners, were not in opposition to these characteristics, as showed in some vintage pictures, where the park always appears to be kept in a free and informal aspect.
It was through this way that, probably, were formed some faces of the barco, such as the piazzale dei mascheroni, the uccelliera (the aviary) and the giardino nuovo (new garden), which explicitly evoke romantic atmospheres of nineteenth century, with the presence of exotics trees trendy, as the Camellias, and the majestic Sequoias and Cryptomeria of piazzale dei mascheroni.
The restoration project
His distinctive features survived despite of the urban growth around, aggressive as everywhere into metropolitan area of Rome in the last decades of the last century. Today it's a fragment, or a relic, of the ancient forests that once cloaked these places.