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Boqian Xu is an assistant professor from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University. His research focuses on ecocities, ecological footprint, and carbon footprint. He is also a licensed professional landscape architect who has been involved in many projects in both China and the United States. Xu holds a PhD in city and regional planning, a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in landscape gardening from Beijing Forestry University.

Frederick Steiner is dean and Paley Professor as well as faculty codirector of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He has written, edited, or coedited 22 books, including Design with Nature Now and Megaregions and America’s Future (both from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, distributed by Columbia University Press). He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.