Landscape Architecture Frontiers 044

Urban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children's physical and psychological health, particularly in cities. Now children's mentality and safety, and the freedom of traveling and playing have raised concerns in society. In this issue, trans-disciplinary discussions between scholars and practitioners in landscape architecture and environmental psychology, environmental behaviors, human engineering, public health, etc., as well as city managers, would be encouraged to explore the ways to improve urban environments for children's outdoor activities. With such a multi-disciplinary coverage, this issue aims to update landscape architects' theoretical and methodological approaches to issues of children and urban environments, with a deeper understanding of their disciplinary competences, limitations, and challenges thus to find out their irreplaceable role in guaranteeing children's well-beings.
Kongjian Yu is a doctor of design at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, is an honorary foreign fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape, Peking University.
Helen Woolley is an associated professor for the department of landscape architecture at the University of Sheffield.
Stella Christie is an associate professor for the department of psychology at Tsinghua University, a research chair of Tsinghua laboratory of brain and intelligence, and the director of the child cognition center of Tsinghua laboratory of brain and intelligence.
John Zacharias is a professor at the College of Architecture and Landscape at Peking University and the director of the laboratory for urban process modeling and applications at Peking University.