As China’s urbanization process enters the middle to late stage, “ecology”, “green”, and “low-carbon” have become hot topics in the field of urban and rural planning and construction. Various localities have successively carried out multi-level explorations and practices from buildings to cities. After China proposed the “30·60” dual carbon goals in 2020, promoting carbon peak in urban and rural construction fields has become an extremely important and urgent task, and it will also become an important value orientation and source of innovation in the teaching and practice of urban design. The current issue of Urban Design magazine, themed Low-Carbon Urban Planning and Design, aims to summarize international and domestic experiences, showcase recent domestic practices, and explore the reform of the teaching system.
      Green and low-carbon development is a common responsibility of all humanity, an inherent part of Chinese-style modernization, and a trend towards the people’s aspiration for a better life. The green and low-carbon urban and rural construction is the “underlying tone” that promotes the high-quality urban development, as well as the value orientation and source of innovation for urban design. To promote the green and low-carbon development in urban and rural construction, we must balance construction and renewal, technology and art, systemic coordination and key breakthroughs, and international examples and independent innovation, achieving a transition from buildings to cities and from demonstration to promotion, and constructing more excellent buildings on our motherland. [Detail] ...