Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative : Springer : 9789811640667 : 9811640661 : 30 Sep 2021 : This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China?Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos?China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent ?firsts? in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endange