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Landscape Architecture: Design for Urban Transformation

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2023) | Viewed by 18122

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Gunilla Lindholm

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Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: urban landscape transformation; urban planning; landscape architecture; urban design with planning theory; design theory; landscape theory and urban theory
Dr. Caroline Dahl

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Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: urban transformation; design thinking; time and temporalities of changing urban landscapes; post-industrial landscapes
Prof. Lisa Diedrich

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Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: landscape architecture; strategic design; criticalities; communication and collaboration in design fields

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the journal Land focuses on the actual and potential roles of landscape perspectives in the transformation of urban landscapes. Using landscape architecture and landscape studies as lenses fosters trans-scalar and transdisciplinary perspectives that are beneficial for the sustainable transition of our urban environments. The purpose is to provide space for research articles and essays aimed at understanding the transformations of cities in a broad sense. The Issue will highlight neither formalistic or disciplinary routines nor specifically urban greening or green structures, which are both often written about in association with landscape architecture, but rather amplify everyday landscapes as human habitats, beyond questions of land ownership and managerial functions. According to the UN SDG 11, cities must meet immense challenges concerning instating equality as well as ecological robustness in a number of urban sectors that are now not sufficiently linked, such as planning, management, and design of space, for residential, public, and infrastructural purposes. Although urban research from various disciplines indisputably has produced much useful knowledge for innovations of urban buildings, infrastructure, and open space, there are more perspectives to explore concerning how to instate deep adaptation and broad integration of structures (both materialized and immaterial) in order to achieve sustainable urban landscapes for the future. We welcome papers from a broad variety of fields, shedding light on how urban landscapes are actually shaped or transformed, but also want to encourage case-based or speculative writing on how urban landscapes can nurture citizenship and equal communication of common interests by improving our social, economic, and ecologic living environments.

Dr. Gunilla Lindholm
Dr. Caroline Dahl
Prof. Lisa Diedrich
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • urban landscape transformation
  • co-planned units
  • perceived surroundings
  • social and ecological continuities
  • transdisciplinary collaboration

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The Promoting Effect of Mass Media on Participatory Landscape Revitalization—An Analysis from Newspaper Coverages of Participatory Urban Gardening in China
by Xiyao Zhao, Yueting Mao, Yun Qian and Qing Lin
Land 2023, 12(1), 66; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land12010066 - 26 Dec 2022
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Urban renewal urgently needs to find a new media tool to extensively promote public participation. Professionals also need strong and powerful communication tools for the public. Mass media has the ability to influence human perceptions and behaviors, but its role has been overlooked. [...] Read more.
Urban renewal urgently needs to find a new media tool to extensively promote public participation. Professionals also need strong and powerful communication tools for the public. Mass media has the ability to influence human perceptions and behaviors, but its role has been overlooked. This study aims to arouse professionals’ attention to mass media and promote interdisciplinary cooperation through empirical evidence. By observing the performance of participatory urban gardening projects in Chinese newspapers, we highlight the positive effect of mass media on participatory landscape revitalization. We selected two projects in China as samples, collected newspaper reports on them during 2017–2021, and analyzed the textual framing and report communication based on communication theory. According to the result, mass media has four positive effects that not only affect the public but also contribute to participatory landscape revitalization development. Based on the results, we discuss the consistence of views of the mass media and landscape architecture. This study suggests that landscape architecture needs to actively collaborate with public media to better leverage the role of landscape in sustainable urban transformation. Full article
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Contested Living with/in the Boeng Chhmar Flooded Forests, Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
by Vu Thi Phuong Linh, Kelly Shannon and Bruno De Meulder
Land 2022, 11(11), 2080; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land11112080 - 18 Nov 2022
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The paper is based on empirical research of a territorial transect in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap floodplain. The flooded forests of the Tonle Sap Lake are determined by a significant seasonal flood of up to 13 m, where a large gradient of wetness and [...] Read more.
The paper is based on empirical research of a territorial transect in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap floodplain. The flooded forests of the Tonle Sap Lake are determined by a significant seasonal flood of up to 13 m, where a large gradient of wetness and alluvia flow and dramatically transform the territory. The paper zooms into a case study of the inhabited RAMSAR area of Boeng Chhmar with its five floating villages, which are dispersed along seasonal waterways. Boeng Chhmar is one of the richest symbiotic habitats in the world and its inhabitants completely rely on the flooded forest’s natural cycles for settling, subsistence fishing, and forest−gathering activities. From two opposite landscape transformation processes, Khmer indigenous practices and State development procedures, the paper unravels the logics of settling, coexistence, and contestation. On the one hand, local daily practices are embedded in seasonal floods and forest lifecycles, coexisting, and reconfiguring the inhabited wild for subsistence living. On the other hand, State development through history has centered on (de)−(re)forestation and modern landscape construction for commercially exploitative practices. Forest logging and large−scale fishing lots extracted enormous quantities of natural resources and compromised the health and natural regenerative capacity of the ecological system. This also undermined the ago−old legacy of inhabitant’s ways of settling in and with the landscape. Today, State operations face challenges from both nature itself and cultural resistance. The findings for the paper are based on multi−scalar interpretive mapping. The tracing of morpho−typologies and landscape transformation processes allows multiple narratives to be translated into spatial terms. The coexistence and contestation in Boeng Chhmar and the Tonle Sap can provide spatial insights into contemporary forest and water urbanisms, especially concerning local material cultural practices and landscape transformation. Full article
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Could Purposefully Engineered Native Grassland Gardens Enhance Urban Insect Biodiversity?
by Christina A. Breed, Agata Morelli, Christian W. W. Pirk, Catherine L. Sole, Marié J. Du Toit and Sarel S. Cilliers
Land 2022, 11(8), 1171; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land11081171 - 27 Jul 2022
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Progress is required in response to how cities can support greater biodiversity. This calls for more research on how landscape designers can actively shape urban ecologies to deliver context-specific empirical bases for green space intervention decisions. Design experiments offer opportunities for implemented projects [...] Read more.
Progress is required in response to how cities can support greater biodiversity. This calls for more research on how landscape designers can actively shape urban ecologies to deliver context-specific empirical bases for green space intervention decisions. Design experiments offer opportunities for implemented projects within real-world settings to serve as learning sites. This paper explores preliminary ecological outcomes from a multidisciplinary team on whether purposefully engineered native grassland gardens provide more habitat functions for insects than mainstream gardens in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. Six different sites were sampled: two recently installed native grassland garden interventions (young native), two contemporary non-native control gardens (young non-native) on the same premises and of the same ages as the interventions, one remnant of a more pristine native grassland reference area (old native), and one long-established, non-native reference garden (old non-native). Plant and insect diversity were sampled over one year. The short-term findings suggest that higher plant beta diversity (species turnover indicating heterogeneity in a site) supports greater insect richness and evenness in richness. Garden size, age, and connectivity were not clear factors mediating urban habitat enhancement. Based on the preliminary results, the researchers recommend high native grassland species composition and diversity, avoiding individual species dominance, but increasing beta diversity and functional types when selecting garden plants for urban insect biodiversity conservation in grassland biomes. Full article
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Landscape-Based Transformation of Young Industrial Landscapes
by Johanne Heesche, Ellen Marie Braae and Gertrud Jørgensen
Land 2022, 11(6), 908; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land11060908 - 15 Jun 2022
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Due to deindustrialisation, young industrial landscapes (YILs), stemming roughly from the 1930s to the 1970s and located in the suburbs of Copenhagen, are partly abandoned, partly in use, and partly used for non-industrial purposes. By virtue of their location, size, and unused and [...] Read more.
Due to deindustrialisation, young industrial landscapes (YILs), stemming roughly from the 1930s to the 1970s and located in the suburbs of Copenhagen, are partly abandoned, partly in use, and partly used for non-industrial purposes. By virtue of their location, size, and unused and underused subareas, YILs can potentially meet major urbanisation aims, such as densification and mixed-use development, yet the redevelopment of YILs often happens from a hypothetical virgin land position, disregarding the existing features of these sites. In this paper, we aim to introduce value-sustaining strategies for a more site-informed transformation of YILs. The specific objective is to investigate and understand the landscape-based transformation of young industrial landscapes by making explicit use of their site features in what we label the landscape. Based on a literature study of the emerging phenomenon, a screening of landscape-based projects and a case study, we present a set of qualifying strategies to guide future landscape-based transformations: porosity, reuse, re-naturing, and open-endedness. The complimentary spatial, multi-scalar, and temporal strategies were demonstrated through the study of the five European cases: Alter Flugplatz Kalbach, Hersted Industripark, IBA Emscher Park, Louvre Lens Museum Park, and Parc aux Angéliques, to exemplify how the strategies could guide the landscape-based transformation of YILs or similar types of large-scale landscapes. Although apparently straight forward, the formulation of the four strategies linking ethics and transformation practices provides a much needed set of values and tools in the current, and also historical, redevelopment of YILs, which are a significant part of our urbanised landscapes, to better address societal challenges. Full article
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Different Jargon, Same Goals: Collaborations between Landscape Architects and Ecologists to Maximize Biodiversity in Urban Lawn Conversions
by A. Haven Kiers, Billy Krimmel, Caroline Larsen-Bircher, Kate Hayes, Ash Zemenick and Julia Michaels
Land 2022, 11(10), 1665; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/land11101665 - 27 Sep 2022
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Landscape architects and ecologists alike are embracing the opportunities urban areas present for restoring biodiversity. Despite sharing this goal, their efforts are rarely coordinated. For landscape architects, aesthetics and programming are at the forefront of design and must be given substantial attention, while [...] Read more.
Landscape architects and ecologists alike are embracing the opportunities urban areas present for restoring biodiversity. Despite sharing this goal, their efforts are rarely coordinated. For landscape architects, aesthetics and programming are at the forefront of design and must be given substantial attention, while ecologists look to scientific research to guide their decision-making. However, the lack of scientific research aimed at developing best ecological practices for native landscaping—particularly at small urban scales—make this difficult at a time when many residents are converting their lawns to more sustainable landscapes (“lawn conversions”). We survey literature from the fields of design and ecology to synthesize relevant information about small-scale urban landscaping projects and to identify instances in which practitioners from both fields are already “speaking the same language,” only with slightly different vocabulary. To further promote transdisciplinary collaborations, we present a new glossary tool to highlight these parallel concepts across fields. We discuss specific situations in which design priorities can be aligned with ecological function and propose that more attention should be placed on traditional principles of garden design, including perception, complexity and repetition, rhythm and order, proportion and scale, and form and structure. Finally, we argue that each new urban lawn conversion presents an opportunity to test ecological theory at the site-scale, conduct much-needed research on the impacts of design principles on habitat potential, and promote a collaborative urban ecological design aesthetic. Full article
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