Collaborating with Silver Architects, HM White has developed a waterfront residential resort village within the 30 square-kilometer Tianjin Eco-City in Northern China on the Bohai Sea. Situated within one of China’s most polluted former industrial districts, this planned residential community is designed within a comprehensive environmental remediation strategy to establish a healthy high performance and sustainable landscape framework. This hilltop village and its landscape context rest at the intersection of as many as 300 rivers that flow directly into the local watershed. HM White’s charge is to resolve the needs of the village’s proposed residential density within the challenges of inadequate drainage, upstream pollutants and soil contaminations. Existing soils are saturated with pollutants and saline concentrations that exceed Class V environmental quality standards for surface water. HM White is developing a strategic approach to address these soil and hydrologic conditions as the basis for an integral series of landscape design principles and design solutions. The community design and its supporting public landscape infrastructure is designed as an emergent ‘island’ within a series of rolling fields. Ecologically based land reclamation and site design solutions are intended to demonstrate exemplary models of sustainability while fulfilling the site planning and development program objectives in the creation of a pedestrian oriented hill town resort community.