Exploration of Urban Green Infrastructure Design Practice Methodology under Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Urban ecosystem services (ES) have been perennially regarded as a single quantifiable resource based on the perspective of human activities, to achieve sustainable urban development in the future, the inclusion of the novel integrated ecosystems concept in related fields is urgent. With the emergence of a profusion of methods between sustainable science and other disciplines, the design paradigm of urban green infrastructure (GI) under existing concepts should be shifted to the integrated urban ecosystem, exploring and rethinking itself from a broader disciplinary perspective. After extensive field research and collaboration, we proposed an innovative quantitative model of urban ES including urban biological measurement factor, and combined it with GIS datasets into regional case studies. Through the joint implementation of design practice activities with researchers and institutions from the fields of biology, economics, landscape ecology, etc., a GI design scheme and a series of supporting decision-making toolkits were finally formed. This paper extends the perspective of the urban ES quantitative assessment frame, combines the assessment model of ES with the empirical results of actual design practices under cross-discipline to conduct a joint analysis. On this basis, this paper also examines the feasibility of the conception of a multidisciplinary collaborative design practice paradigm under the intervention of the urban ES assessment frame, expounding how sustainable design research can deal with sustainable challenges and promote social transformation insights.