Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative.

• Author: Kelly, Ashley Scott.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lu, Xiaoxuan.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape archi...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Critical Interventions
• 3 Landscape Planning as Sustainable Development
• 4 A Definition of Critical Landscape Planning
• 5 Organization of This Book
• References
• Part I Framing
• 2 A Pedagogy of Critical Landscape Planning
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Critical Approaches to Landscape Planning
• 3 Holding Cultural-Technological Positions in Landscape Planning
• 4 Ensuring Transdisciplinarity Through Culturing and Socialization
• 5 Process-Oriented Development and Planning "Projects"
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• 3 From Land-Locked to Land-Linked?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Colonial Period: Integrating Laos into the Colonial Space of Indochina
• 3 Cold War Period: Integrating Laos into the US Sphere of Influence
• 4 Post-Cold War Period: Integrating Laos into Global Markets
• 5 Conclusion
• References
• 4 Locating Discourses and Narratives for Intervention
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Politics of Land-Use Planning
• 3 Sustainable Development Paradigm
• 4 Frontier Resourcification
• 5 The Promise of Infrastructure
• 6 Conclusion
• References
• Part II Strategies
• 5 Infrastructural Connectivity and Difference
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Curating Rural Connectivity: Strategic Maintenance of Temporary Access Roads of the China-Laos Railway
• 3 Before the Bulldozer: Strategic Agricultural Cooperation for an Uncertain Rail Alignment
• References
• 6 Western Alternative Development and Chinese Development
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Low-Labor Landscapes: An Agricultural Response to Short-Term Construction Employment on the China-Laos Railway
• 3 Water Risk and Responsibility: A Political-Chemical Land Genealogy for the Muang Sing Valley, Laos
• References
• 7 Chinese Mass Nature Tourism and Ecotourism
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Negotiating with Ethno-Ecology: Landscape Management Strategies for Northern Laos's Ecotourism Boom
• 3 Living Heritage: Redefining Protections for Urban Expansion in Luang Prabang
• References
• 8 Northern Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Scientific Stewardship: Indigenous and Ecosystem Territories Across the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor
• 3 Empowering a Labor Transition During Enclosure and Securitization of Luang Prabang's Natural Heritage
• 4 Clean Versus Organic: Strategic Agricultural Enterprises for Vientiane Under Rural-Urban Migration
• References