Beyond Beauty or Urban Design of Responsibility

Abstract

In recent years, urban spaces all over the world have been effectively staged, sometimes all too obviously, and urban design has often concentrated on the implementation of "beautiful" lighthouse projects and globally oriented lifestyle urbanism. However, beauty – also in the broader sense of a beautiful experience – cannot be an end in itself in urban planning. An urban design of responsibility has to be committed to all residents and address the pressing challenges of our time, for example: the almost unlimited consumption of land, water and energy; floods and heatwaves due to climate change; lack of decent living conditions for large parts of the population. Against this background, five strategic guidelines for the integrated and responsible planning of our cities have been developed. These include "comprehensive" and integrated neighbourhoods, a mobility turnaround, interconnected blue and green infrastructure, a circular resource economy and space sharing, and the exploitation of the opportunities of digitalisation for a social and ecological city.

Maximizing the Beauty of Ceramic Art Application in Landscape Design under the Background of Artificial Intelligence

“…The acceleration of the urbanization process and the gradual improvement of people's living standards have put forward new contents for landscape design. Human beings have entered a new era of rebuilding beautiful and living environment with the scale of beauty [1]. Studying how to apply the laws of beauty to create a beautiful environment has become an important topic for people to pursue a higher and richer spiritual life.…”