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Today, cities are redefining their relationships with the natural world, spurring a new dynamic between the built environment, man-made landscapes, and nature. Nature is no longer seen as the antithesis of the city and civilized life, or as something simply to support urban dwellers’ social life, but also as a means of fighting challenges such as climate change, urban health and well-being within the city. This approach to landscape and nature in cities has evolved as a response to the human–nature crisis and the need to limit urban development in open areas of ecological importance. In terms of planning, this approach called for the preparation of pre-development surveys, including a comprehensive land survey that relates to climate, geology, hydrology, flora and fauna as means to better planing the built environment. In addition, and in parallel, to the discussion on the conservation of land resources outside urban space, there was also recognition of the need to address the natural systems in cities (Scheer, 2011). This recognition led to investigation of flora and fauna in the city and examination of the city’s ecosystems, which in turn led to new design strategies viewing landscape as a key component in creating new hybrid ecosystems (Mossop, 2006). At the beginning of the twenty-first century this ecological emphasis in cities is associated with two prominent concepts: landscape urbanism (Waldheim, 2006) which emerged from architecture and planning, combining design with ecological approaches, and urban ecology (Mostafavi and Doherty, 2016; Steiner, 2011) whose roots are in ecological positivist studies. Viewing landscape and nature as a means/tool that can ‘solve’ some of the major challenges of contemporary urbanization also contributed to their presence in our daily life. Recycling, greening and rehabilitating nature in the city have not been merely theoretical-utopian ideas but rather translated into practice through policy documents, designated campaigns, and legal initiatives. This condition contributed to the centrality of landscape in our daily city life and also, as suggested by W.J.T. Mitchell (2002), contributed to the use of landscape as a verb. As he further argues, landscape is not just an object to be seen, or text to be read, but a process by which social and subjective identities are formed; as such, landscape is not merely signifying power relations; it is an instrument of cultural power, perhaps even an agent of power that is independent of human intentions (Ibid., p. 1).
Built Environment
Landscape as a Founding Element of the Contemporary Urban2018 •
This paper discusses how landscape transformations and uses redefine the features of urban and non-urban (sub-extra-urban, or rural) contexts in collective imaginaries, and their role as a key element in planning policies. More specifically, the study investigates landscape transformation processes by discussing changes in the perception of the territory among inhabitants and visitors. As argued in this paper, due to its use as a cultural, economic, and political tool, landscape strongly in fluences territorial marketing strategies and individual living choices, contributing to the rise of new issues on the urban question. This argument is based on research into the social perception of landscape in the mountain area of Montagnoli, near Madonna di Campiglio, in the Trentino Province (Northern Italy), where a project for a water storage basin for artificial snowmaking caused significant material and cultural changes to the territory. Using this case study, the paper discusses the role of nature in the evolution of the founding myths of an urban environment.
ACE: Architecture, City and Environment
BENEDET, V., AZPEITIA, A., AZKARATE, A. 2020, “Landscape and Urbanism in the 21st Century. Some Reflections on the State of Affairs, ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, 15(43), 8987. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ace.15.43.89872020 •
For several decades, the notion of landscape has been instrumentalised by various fields of study and with the most diverse views and interests. This is a notion that brings together all the features of liminal spaces, areas characterised by their mediating nature. The success and rapid extension of the concept of landscape, however, has not yet seen a similar development in the methodological field nor is it achieving sufficient consensus to be applied to the administrative scope. In this contribution we will adjust our reflection around the idea of historic urban landscapes, highlighting the need to address the “change management” approach demanded by 21st-century cities. To this end, we shall delve into some new urban management initiatives, in which the “prosumer citizenship” is beginning to be a key element in the construction of the identity of the spaces inhabited. In the same vein, the scope and content of the emerging discipline of tactical urbanism will also be discussed, paying special attention to the limitations of “design thinking” in historic city centres; areas affected by environments that are frequently problematic, where the complex regulations of individual or collectivetutelage that cultural assets require come into play.
ACE: Architecture, City and Environment
Landscape and urbanism in the 21st century: some reflections on the state of affairs2020 •
Durante varias décadas, la noción de paisaje ha sido instrumentalizada por diversos campos de estudio y con los puntos de vista e intereses más diversos. Esta es una noción que reúne todas las características de los espacios liminales, áreas caracterizadas por su naturaleza mediadora. Sin embargo, el éxito y la rápida extensión del concepto de paisaje aún no ha experimentado un desarrollo similar en el campo metodológico ni está logrando un consenso suficiente para ser aplicado al ámbito administrativo. En esta contribución, ajustaremos nuestra reflexión en torno a la idea de paisajes urbanos históricos, destacando la necesidad de abordar el enfoque de "gestión del cambio" exigido por las ciudades del siglo XXI. Con este fin, profundizaremos en algunas nuevas iniciativas de gestión urbana, en las que la "prosumer citizenship" comienza a ser un elemento clave en la construcción de la identidad de los espacios habitados. En la misma línea, también se discutirá el a...
Landscapes of Urbanism, V.Ferrario, A. Sampieri, P. Viganò (eds.) Officina Edizioni/IUAV, Venice, Rome, Q5 Quaderni del dottorato di ricerca in Urbanistica, pp. 134-145
Return to Landscape Urbanism2011 •
In common literature the relationship between urban planning and landscape architecture has retrospectively often been described as an antagonistic one. The impression can be gained that only recent projects re-discover the importance of existing natural features as guiding design themes, and that earlier generations ignored them in favor of grand urban schemes. Architectural hardware against green software. Tabula rasa against incremental change. Starting from this hypothetical premise of two contradicting philosophies, the authors decided to dwell deeper into the historic context and to investigate how existing landscape systems have had a major impact on masterplan principles, informing a built reality that could otherwise have taken a different form and turn.
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In this issue of SPOOL Landscape Metropolis #6, designerly and discursive work on gardens in the metropolitan landscape is explored. The focus is on the garden as a theatre of landscape in the metropolis, where the city-dweller can stand face to face with natural processes, the longue durée of evolution and natural growth, silence, and open skies, as the counterpart to the excess of the urban programme. This notion of the garden as a theatre, a stage on which landscape and growth are performed, is explored by taking a closer look, spotting those places that merit attention in the vast metropolitan territory. Consequently, this is how we invite our readers to read this issue of SPOOL – by giving attention to the particular, while establishing links between one particularity and another, and to the overarching whole.
European vision and local identity. commentary on the sidelines of the Conference "The Role of Open Spaces in the Transformation of Urban Landscape" - Berlin, 2013, March 12th - 14th Publishes in: Anna Lambertini (ed.), The Role of Open Spaces in the Transformation of Urban Landscape. Florence: Editrice Compositori, 2013 Complete Publication: http://paysage-developpement-durable.fr/IMG/pdf/urban-landscape.pdf Conference Website: http://www.laboratoriocitta.unibo.it/laboratorio/Bacheca/Eventi/2013/03/12-14+marzo+2013.htm
Academia Materials Science
Sol-gel synthesis of TiO2 doped with chromium, characterization and studies of photocatalytic degradation of tartrazine under visible light2023 •
International Journal of Engineering and Management Research
A Review of Factors Affecting Consumer Behavior towards Online Shopping2018 •
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Handbook of Halophytes
Economic Utilization of Salt-Affected Wasteland for Plant Production2020 •
Annales de Normandie
L'assemblée devant Caen (hiver 1434-1435) : une insurrection normande en faveur de Charles VII2023 •
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Medical physics
Simplifying volumes-of-interest (VOIs) definition in quantitative SPECT: Beyond manual definition of 3D whole-organ VOIs2017 •
Child Development Perspectives
Autistics’ Atypical Joint Attention: Policy Implications and Empirical Nuance2008 •
Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française
Nouveaux résultats sur l’origine des obsidiennes de Peiro Signado à Portiragnes (Hérault)2009 •
Computers in Industry
Computer aided process planning for sheet metal bending: A state of the art2005 •
Social Networks
Changes in the social networks of prisoners: A comparison of their networks before and after imprisonment2016 •
From Life to Death in Iron Age and Medieval Vinjefjord. Unveiling Burial Practices, Settlement and Landscape History
Funerary Clothing and Bedding in the Viking-Age : The Examples From Hestnes and Skeiet, Central Norway