Landscape and Urban Planning

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2012

Landscape and Urban Planning, 1986

Proceedings of the 2016 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS) Confernce. Organized by HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil hepia, haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genéve; Paul Bauer, Maria Collender, Michael Jakob, Lea Ketterer Bonnelame, Peter Petschek, Dominik Siegrist, Christian Tschumi (Eds.)

2008

Amongst the processes linked to the territorial expansion of the city —particularly to the development of great urban systems— we find the production of metropolitan landscapes, the characteristics of which cannot be understood in the light of the usual landscape categories nor the methods associated to their analysis. That is why remarkable efforts have been made over the last twenty years in order to develop a theoretical body for their understanding, parallel to the efforts carried on by the public administration in order to improve them.

This paper examines the potential of a holistic approach for urban and regional strategies in order to understand the way this might contribute more effectively to current global challenges. Part of a wider research strategy investigating the extent to which low carbon and spatial quality can be delivered at a regional level, it demonstrates benefits of adopting a range of processes to deliver integrated and sustainable urban development. The case studies examined include the Landscape Observatory (Spain), the Room for the River (the Netherlands) and HS2/HS2LV (UK). The Landscape Observatory has raised public awareness of the value of landscape to the extent to which there is now a public law protecting landscape in Catalonia. An investigation of projects dealing with climate adaptation in the Netherlands demonstrates the potential and significance of introducing low carbon and the quality of space in urban and regional infrastructure projects. An examination of the HS2 high-speed rail project in the UK illustrates how it might be possible to impact on the perception and development of a singular engineering project in order to convey a wider sustainable vision and the impact that this might have on future landscape in towns, cities and rural areas. The significance of development of procurement processes, policies and legislations as part of the administration phase of urban and regional landscape schemes are also considered necessary for future landscape strategies. Initial outcomes indicate that successful delivery requires the development of a landscape vision and the understanding of low carbon and spatial quality concepts through design in order to be better expressed in the infrastructure and create added value to our cities and regions.

Land

In recent decades, the landscape has given a new impulse to the renewal of spatial planning. This process has nevertheless raised several methodological issues about how to deal with sensitive non-functional aspects in spatial planning tools and procedures, as well as new challenges for policy design. Placemaking, landscape urbanism, and landscape planning do not differ just in scale but in their very idea of public/collective interest and the action that is required to reach them. Reflecting on some evidence from the recent Italian experience of landscape plans and policies, based on direct involvement in practice and academic debate, the author will highlight several main issues at stake today in this field. The conclusions will argue some potentially promising innovation perspectives, on both processes and contents regarding landscape-based spatial planning and policies, as well as some critical conditions of an institutional context.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Landscape ecology is repeatedly described as an applied science that can help reduce the negative effects of land-use and land-use changes on biodiversity. However, the extent to which landscape ecology is in fact contributing to planning and design processes is questioned. The aim of this paper is to investigate if and how landscape ecology can be integrated in a planning and design process, and to uncover possible problems that, e.g., landscape architects and planners, may face in such processes. Our conclusion, based on a case study from Asker municipality, Norway, is that such a landscape ecological approach has a lot to offer. However, it is difficult to exploit the potential fully for different reasons, e.g., biodiversity information tends to be specialized, and not easily used by planners and designers, and landscape ecological principles need an adaptation process to be applicable in a real-world situation. We conclude that for the situation to improve, landscape ecologists ...

2008

Landscapes were initially understood as a materiality, and gradually became a social and historical object. Today, landscape belongs to the field of public policies and citizenship. In this way, landscape can be considered as a subject for territorial intelligence, including the governance concept, and public policies actions. In this general frame, we have to focus on the links between landscape and public policies, and on their evaluation.

International Journal of Development and Sustainability, 2019

Since the advent and birth of the urban landscape as an academic discipline, various attitudes have emerged in this field, and different disciplines and sciences have treated differently in this regard. The purpose of this research is to determine the scope of the urban landscape as an important branch of the landscape by introducing and explaining purposes and approaches. In this paper, collecting and classifying findings has been done using logical reasoning and library studies. Therefore, by focusing on the evolution of the concept of urban landscape in recent decades, the approaches and the main purposes in this field, are recognized and presented. Based on studies, in general, four approaches can be considered for urban landscape: Artistic approach, Functional approach, Perceptual / Contextual approach, and Sustainable approach. According to the proposed approaches, it was found that four factors of aesthetics, function, identity and ecology are the main purposes of the urban landscape in designs and researches. In other words, it can be said that all the designs and researches in the urban landscape are focused on these four main purposes. Consideration of this issue is so important that the proposed purposes have extensive meanings, and each approach interprets them differently.