Tony McCormick, HASSELL Principal, was one of the keynote speakers at the Seventh Chinese Landscape Architecture Education Conference & Landscape Architects Congress held recently at Peking University, Beijing. Representing the Sustainable Future’s Unit at HASSELL, Tony addressed the conference theme, Landscape Urbanism, by presenting a case study on the research undertaken for the Millennium Parklands project. Universities were well represented with presentations by Kongjian Yu Dean, Graduate School of Landscape Architecture Peking University; Charles Waldheim, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Director of Harvard Graduate School of Design; Kelly Shannon, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Catholic University of Leuven; Frederick Steiner, Professor of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin; and Bart Johnson, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon. Presentations by leading landscape architecture firms EDSA, SWA, AECOM, SASAKI, ATKINS, AGER were also included.

The conference achieved great success, overviewing the progress of Landscape Urbanism worldwide and the importance of its application to the planning and design of China’s new urban areas. Over 600 Landscape Architecture students, teachers, Chinese landscape architects and government officers attended the two-day event.