Restructuring Cultural Landscapes in Metropolitan Areas: Characterization, Typology and Design Research

Dr. Yuting Xie received her M.Sc. degree in Landscape Architecture from Peking University, China, in 2011, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Landscape Architecture from Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2017. Since March 2018, she has been in the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang University as a lecturer. She is currently the director of China Urban Landscape Lab at TU Munich, which dedicates to managing landscape changes and to developing historical landscape structures as a qualitative framework for China’s rapidly transforming urban environment. In 2019, she co-founded a collaborative research platform-Jiangnan Lab, using regional design as a tool for bringing cross-sector spatial planning, landscape architecture and urban design and multi-level governance together in the Yangtze River Delta megacity region in China.
Since 2012, she has published 11 peer-reviewed technical papers in books, international journals and conferences. Since 2011, she has been the principal investigator of six international research projects both in China and in Europe. She was a recipient of Best Innovation Award at the 2020 Suzhou International Design Week for the exhibition of her Jiangnan Park project and two Excellent Paper Awards at the 2020 China Landscape Architecture Education Conference. She was also awarded the Excellent Instructor for several competitions such as the Yuanye Cup International Competition for College Students in 2020 and the Xiaoxiang Cup Landscape Architecture Design Competition in 2018.