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ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, 2020
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, 2020
Abstract e-ISSN 1886-4805 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 collective tutelage that cultural assets require come into play. Keywords: Historic Urban Landscapes; Prosumer Citizenship; Tactical Urbanism; City Prosperity Initiative (CPI)
Urban landscape as a new concept in urban planning and design
It was only 10 years ago that the European Council launched the Landscape Convention which has been approved since then by most of European countries, among them Hungary. Landscape architecture as a mean in improving urban environment was born in the 18th-19th century English landscape movement which opened and widened the scope of urban planning. On the other hand by the second half of the 19th century the urban erosion of industrial cities cried for direct intervention and curing. The methods developed, either along an urban or an anti-urban philosophy, resulted in the new urban structure models of garden cities and later the green belt systems. These systems have been drown up not only on an urban level, but on large scale, regional level as well, first of all in the garden city plan of Ebenezer Howard, and aimed to solve all the main urban problems with restructuring the city’s fabric, controlling the urban spread into rural landscape, dealing with the lack of green areas and open spaces for recreation and the improvement of social life, and the lack of green spaces for ventilation and air quality protection. The garden city movement arrived by the 20th century to the next step, to new concept of urban green belt systems. At this point the urban development gave up its strong technical-economical definiteness, and involved the natural landscape elements into its concept so as to create a sustainable, social friend and healthy, all together a liveable urban landscape.
The Contributions of Urban Landscape to Urban Life
The issues of urban and urbanization emerged after the industrial revolution. Thus, cities that have increased rapidly in population have become points of attraction for people. Over the past century, the world population has begun to gather quickly in urban areas. Cities are transforming into unhealthy living environments with distorted ecological balance, lost green areas and aesthetic qualities. The value of accessible green spaces in urban areas is increasing to the unprecedented levels. The green space system seen as a necessity in the cities have provided the emergence of the "urban landscape" phenomenon. The issue of urban landscape is now a very serious concept. The landscape change is moving along with the level of civilization. Primarily, guidance service should be offered for more efficient, comfortable and protective areas. An interdisciplinary approach is needed in the creation of urban spaces. In this study, the term of urban landscape was explained and the researches about the contributions of urban landscape to urban life were examined and suggestions were made about the subject.
Ecolecce. Landscape as Urban Development
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.)
Landscape architecture in changing city-scapes
Since the early years of landscape architecture, design and planning in urban or rural environments was interwoven with the notions of transformation and change, mainly due to the extensive use of nature. Around 1960s, the science of ecology first introduced the study of the dynamic character of ecosystems, with major influence on landscape architecture theory and practice. The notion of change was brought forward, by defining landscape interventions as “any kind of alteration or change taking place into a certain area". A decade later, in order to define the potential of a landscape for new interventions, landscape architecture established the “reading” of a landscape from an ecological, perceptual and social aspect, while emphasis was given to its dynamic character. This already established spherical approach aims at producing new landscapes within a living space, inspired by its history - cultural and ecological-, and create new sustainable environments for present and future generations. Nowadays, due to the continuous and rapid change of the contemporary city-scape as a consequence of several reasons, such as the rapid growth of technology, the increase of mobility and speed – actual and imaginary - etc., the notion of time and temporality finds its place in the centre of interest in landscape research and practice. In the context of urban open space design and planning, more than ever appears the need to approach the urban environment as a dynamic, mutable and interactive ecosystem, subject to continuous transformations which relate to the social and ecological processes, as well as to the spatial structure and function of urban space. In this context, the paper discusses the contribution of landscape architecture in design and planning of contemporary ever-changing city-scapes, based on recent landscape research programs in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, either theoretical or design and planning projects for large and medium scale Greek cities. Keywords: urban landscape, transformation, temporality, design, planning
Urban As Infrastructural Landscape
The main objective of paper was to analyze and understand the working of landscape with urban form and also how the natural landscape which has been neglected consequently, can be enhanced by using the available infrastructure. This paper explains the glory, denial and revival of nature in two parts; the first part i.e. "landscape as urban infrastructure" explains about the natural heritage of a place, how it used to function as infrastructure of city and how it functions as an artifact; it also includes the criticism on denial of the natural system and how it is being used presently. The next part i.e. "urban as infrastructural landscape" deals with the rejuvenation of the disrupted nature and how it can work well and utilize the constructed infrastructure as its potential. Concluding that both infrastructure and landscape are integral part of the city and both are equally important; if infrastructure leads to the development of the city, then nature was the fir...