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Yu, Kongjian

LC control no.nr 99023381
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingYu, Kongjian
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Variant(s)Yü, Kʻung-chien
俞孔堅
Other standard no.0000 0000 6429 3704
500512632
36839171
Q6429201
Associated countryUnited States China
Associated placeBeijing (China)
Birth date1963
Field of activityWetland landscape design Landscape architecture
AffiliationHarvard University American Academy of Arts and Sciences Beijing da xue
Turenscape (Beijing, China)
Profession or occupationLandscape architects University and college faculty members
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Found inChing kuan, l998: t.p. (俞孔堅, Yü Kʻung-chien)
Nature-based solutions and urban resilience = 基于自然的解决方案与城市韧性 [Ji yu zi ran de jie jue fang an yu cheng shi ren xing], 2020: pages 1-2, 6-7 (Yu Kongjian = 俞孔堅, chief editor; Doctor of design, Harvard University, Honorary foreign fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor of College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University)
New York times, 29 March 2024: in an article entitled, "One architect's advice for flood-prone cities: act as a sponge would" on page A9 (Kongjian Yu, a landscape architect and professor at Peking University; through his Beijing-based company, Turenscape, one of the world's largest landscape architecture firms, Mr. Yu has overseen the development of hundreds of landscaped urban water parks in China where runoff from flash floods is diverted to soak into the ground or be absorbed into constructed wetlands; awarded the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize last year [2023?])
Associated languagechi