Short description:

This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet, its environments and its populations through their research, analysis and speculative practice.

Long description:

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit. This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet, its environments and its populations through their research, analysis and speculative practice.

The book has assembled current writings on recent research structured around five major themes: governance, power and partnership; infrastructure, systems and performance; environment, resilience and climate change; people, place and design; and culture, heritage and identity. As a collection, the chapters demonstrate the diversity of themes and topics that are expanding the scholarly body of knowledge for the discipline and its relevance to the practice of landscape architecture.

The contributors to this book are academic researchers and practitioners from the discipline of landscape architecture. The chapters draw on their research, teaching and experience as well as analysis of project examples. Fifty-two contributors from the United Stsates, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Malaysia, Spain, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand and Canada discuss a diverse range of contemporary themes in urban landscape architecture. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate the breadth of experience, shared concerns and distinct issues that challenge urban landscape architecture and cities in the 21st century.

Table of Contents:

Landscape Architecture: Playing a Vital Role in a Time of Climate Crisis, Global Urbanization and Social Upheaval

1. Integrated and Long-Term Approaches to Urban Landscape Development: the Option of Combined Governance and Management

2. Transforming the Abandoned Urban Landscape

3. Reimagining Landscape: Landscape-led Governance to Support Future Transformation and Change

4. Bicycle Infrastructure Design and Street politics: From Bourke Street?s Flagship Project to COVID-19 Pop-Ups

5. Achieving Tree-lined Streetscapes in Western Sydney: Intentions Versus Reality

6. Air Quality, Heat and Health: The Role of Green Infrastructure

7. The Parametric Paradigm: The Implementation of the Digital Design Technology

8. Technology and its Role in the Public Realm

9. Above and Beyond: Aerial Technologies, Atmosphere and Landscape

10. Reclaiming Australian Peri-Urban Territories for Landscape Architecture: A Rationale for Change?

11. Aesthetics and Performance of Stormwater Infrastructure

12. Landscape Lifecycles: Renewed Principles for Waste in Urban Landscape Design

13. Applied Urban Resilience Framework: Operationalizing Resilience in Urbanized Landscapes through Spatial Design

14. Three Forms of Resilience Learned from the Safe-to-Flood Landscape of the Upper Mekong Delta

15. Rethinking Green Infrastructure Planning: Making Green Space Work in Times of Financial, Social and Ecological Uncertainty

16. Research Questions for Dynamic Landscapes in a Rapidly Changing Tropical City

17. Urban Energy Infrastructure Transitions: The Participation of Local Citizens in the Development of Smart Local Energy Systems and Sustainable Heating

18. Changing Landscapes, Changing Mindsets: Building Capacity Toward Action in the Climate-adaptive Design Studio

19. A Multidimensional Sustainability Framework for Landscape Architecture: Are Diverse Outcomes Being Realized in Design Practice?

20. The Alnarp Method: An Interdisciplinary Based Design of Holistic Healing Gardens Derived from Research and Development in Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden

21. Townscape Analysis: A Comprehensive Methodology for Landscape and Urban Design

22. Urban Agriculture: Nourishing Cities

23. Did Children?s Relationship with Urban Public Space Change in the Years of COVID-19?

24. The Role of Ojudes in the Socio-cultural Well-being of Children in Ilorin City, Nigeria

25.Dealing with Difficult Memories: Treatments for the Wounds of Urban Landscapes

26. Revisiting Post-War Green Open Spaces as ?Welfare Landscapes?

27. Conflict and Peace: The Physical and Social effects on the Landscape of Colombia?s Informal Settlements

28. A Line Through a City: Using Transects to Uncover Patterns, Experiences and Histories of Everyday Landscapes

Landscape Architecture Remaining Inspired, Engaged and Grounded in the Face of Global Challenges