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Multi-objective optimisation of path and space utilisation in landscape garden green space design
Jia Yu1, Jiazhe Song1, Huihui Lan1
1College of Life Science and Engineering, Shenyang University, Shenyang, China.
Plos One
|July 1, 2025
Summary
Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) optimize landscape garden green space design, balancing space, path, and aesthetic efficiency. MOEAs outperform other algorithms, providing superior solutions for urban green spaces.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Science
- Urban Planning
- Computational Intelligence
Background:
- Rapid urbanization presents challenges for efficient landscape garden design.
- Optimizing green space involves balancing multiple, often competing, objectives.
Purpose of the Study:
- To address the multi-objective optimization problem in landscape garden green space design.
- To compare the performance of various multi-objective optimization algorithms (MOEAs) against traditional methods like Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), and Simulated Annealing (SA).
Main Methods:
- Application of multiple multi-objective optimization algorithms to a case study in Tongzhou District.
- Evaluation based on space utilization efficiency, path efficiency, and aesthetic quality.
Main Results:
- MOEAs demonstrated superior performance across all three objectives compared to GA, PSO, ACO, and SA.
- MOEAs achieved 90.2% space utilization, 140.3 m path length, and an aesthetic score of 9.2.
- These results significantly surpassed those obtained by GA, PSO, ACO, and SA.
Conclusions:
- MOEAs offer a superior approach for optimizing landscape garden green space design.
- The findings highlight MOEAs' effectiveness in balancing spatial efficiency, path optimization, and aesthetic quality.
- This optimization strategy is particularly beneficial for dense urban environments.
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