NEW URBAN SCAPES IN FAR EAST ASIA

In recent decades, the fast growth and intense urban densification of the populous cities of Far East Asia brought about the creation of vast and banal panoramas, with new quarters and wide bands of infrastructure superimposed on the earlier morphology of the sites. For some time now, that model of growth has been reconsidered, with evidence of a greater attention to the quality of the urban environ¬ment. The main aim is the creation of more acceptable city environments, in the awareness that economic and social growth cannot remain divorced from urban and environmental quality. Landscape architecture is the major agent in this process.