'City as Herbscape’ is inspired by Aldo van Eyck's ‘City as Playgrounds’. The project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people with illnesses or ailments through the “landscape-isation” of traditional Chinese herbal plants (TCHPs) and traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCMs).

Interviews with aged people and TCM users who are acquainted with TCHPs promoted the formation of herb recipe book. The recipe book proposes a way to empower knowledge sharing of TCHPs and TCMs and a method to design a therapeutic herbscape. The project unfolds along with the increasing number of herb recipes. The ritual, usage and story in the recipes inform the design of the herbscape kit-of-parts and urban herbscape prototype. By classifying a series of site categories in the city, the project strategically uses urban acupuncture to apply a small-scale herbscape kit-of-parts on an urban scale.