A Short Bio

 English:

Dr Wei Yang is a renowned Chinese-British urban designer and masterplanner with considerable wealth of experience in the field of master planning and urban regeneration. Her strengths lie in combining innovative master plan inspirations with feasible implementation solutions with extensive experience in leading multi-disciplinary master plan teams. She is now masterplanning large-scale London regeneration projects and leading major low carbon master plan and urban design projects in China.

Currently, Dr Wei Yang is a UK Design Council CABE Enabler, a member of OPUN Design Review Panel, an accredit Building for Life Assessor, a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the ICE Journal Urban Planning and Design, and a Trustee of Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre in the UK. She is also a regular speaker at high-level international conferences. She was invited to speak as a UK sustainable development expert at the Business Submits during the UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to China in November 2010 and the Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the UK in January 2011.

Chinese:

杨威博士是英国最成功的华裔城市设计师及总体规划师, 主持了包括浦艾斯豪绿色城市扩建及武汉东湖国家自主创新示范区等众多的中英重要可持续发展城市规划项目。作为大型城市规划项目的资深负责人, 杨威博士擅于对跨领域的设计团队进行管理, 由她主持的浦艾斯豪绿色城市扩建项目曾被英国政府建筑及建设环境委员会评价为总体规划的典范。杨威博士现任英国建筑及建设环境委员会协调委员, 英国OPUN建筑及城市设计专家评审小组委员及居住环境质量评估特许认证评估师，她是上述几个组织中最年轻的成员, 也是唯一的华裔成员。

杨威博士作为中国住房城乡建设部与英国商务,创新与技能部合作建立的中英绿色建筑与生态城市工作组的公司代表,曾多次在天津,南京,广州,重庆,长沙,青岛等城市进行有关生态城市及低碳城市规划的专题报告。杨威博士任英国工程师学会《城市规划与设计》学术期刊编委会委员及米尔顿-凯恩斯城市发现中心基金会理事，曾数次在英国对访英的中国规划机构和部门进行培训,旨在高效推进生态城市与可持续发展国际先进经验在中国规划领域的实施。在最近的英国卡梅伦首相和中国李克强总理的高规格互访中, 杨威博士被邀请作为英国城市规划专家分别在北京和伦敦的中英商务峰会上发表有关低碳城市规划的演讲。

Seminar Selected

中外生态城市理论与范例

Title of presentation

English: Integrated Low Carbon Eco-city Masterplanning and Urban Design

Chinese: 一体化低碳生态城市规划和设计

Abstract of presentation

 English：

The paper introduces the UK best sustainable masterplanning and urban design practices and reviews the scope identified by the UK existing planning policy of archiving higher environmental, social and economical standards through an integrated masterplanning process.

Low carbon eco-city masterplanning is not only about carbon reduction technologies, it is rather about how to create an effective and efficient system to allow the city evolves through generations. In the process of low carbon eco-city masterplanning, apart from the highest environmental standard required, emphases should be particular given on the cultivation of citizenship and the creation of communities through design excellence, thus to promote social integration and social cohesion. It is recognised that providing a platform for the well-being carbon neutral lifestyle is of more importance than just providing a carbon neutral envelope. The lessons learnt from the early Garden Cities and the later New Towns in England demonstrated that new settlements can adopt latest concepts of green living and community involvements. The most successful examples also harness economic growth to the benefit of wider planning objectives.

The intension of the paper is not seeking to provide a hands-on experience which can be directly applied in China, it is rather to evoke a debate between planning professionals to explore an integrated mechanism of delivering low carbon eco-cities.

Chinese：

本文介绍了英国可持续发展规划和城市设计的最佳实践，并总结了英国通过强调一体化城市规划来全面提高环境，社会及经济发展标准的城市规划政策手段。

低碳生态城市的规划不应仅仅关注于低碳减排技术，而应关注于如何创造一个高效的城市运作系统，并赋予城市自然发展演变的能力。低碳生态城市应该是一个为健康低碳生活方式提供创造性机遇的平台，而不是提供一个富含低碳技术的机器。在低碳生态城市的规划过程中，除了应采用最高的环境标准以外，还应特别强调通过高质量的人性化建筑及城市环境培养居民对于社区的认同感和归属感， 以促进社会的和谐和统一。从早期英国田园城市和新城运动实践的经验可以看出，新兴社区往往可以适应最新的低碳生活及社区参与理念， 其中最成功的例子也成就了城市经济发展与实现远景规划目标互惠的目的。

本文的目的并不是要提供一个可以在中国直接套用的经验，而是希望在规划师中引发一个有关如何促进中国低碳生态城市一体化规划实践的讨论。