Title & Author:

Landscape approach : from local communities to territorial systems / [edited by] Hannes Zander, Shelagh McCartney, Samantha Solano, Sonja Vangjeli.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2022]
©2022.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Place of publication from the publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword: Landscape as approach: engaging medium-as-method / Nina-Marie E. Lister -- Preface: Crafting socio-environmental entanglements in a world of growing uncertainites / Hannes Zander -- Planning metropolitan landscape systems -- Wild, connected, and diverse: the role of landscape architects in establishing the natural ecosystem of Canada's largest city / Jane Welsh -- Perspectives on heritage conservation and sustainable development in Toulouse, France / Aliza Sovani -- A reflexive approach to uncertainty: situating planning practice in the landscape of Afghanistan's city-regions / Justin Kollar, Thomas Nideroest, Mirwais Rahimi -- Ecological infrastructure as a systematic approach to water issues: Guangzhou's Sponge City planning / Hexing Chang, Dong Wang -- Anchoring our cities in ecological identity / Jennifer A. Dowdell, Keith Bowers -- Building ecological infrastructures -- Port lands flood protection: a landscape infrastructural approach / Shannon Baker, Sonja Vangjeli -- Urban water as a resource, not as waste: the case for medium-scale hydric districts in Mexico City / Adriana Chávez, Elena Tudela, Víctor Rico -- Livable waterways for a water-sensitive transition for Cape Town / Tamsin Faragher -- Qanatscape: revealing the historic water landscape of the Qanat to inform future green infrastructure in cities of arid Iran / Malihe Chamani -- Eternal ephemera: soft infrastructures in the Floating City of Uros, Peru / Alberto de Salvatierra -- Reading socio-political landscapes -- Forest plantations as spatiotemporal reclamation strategy / Julia Smachylo -- Earth moves: Singapore's land reclamation projects and the construction of territory / Hans Hortig -- "Hic et Nuc" palimpsests: reconstructing historical natures through the Malm Territory of extraction / Berta Flaquer -- The living and breathing map of Sámi reindeer herding / Kjerstin Uhre, Eli Ristin Skum -- Planning for territorial systems -- On the edge: re-framing our understanding of a Missological territory / Matthew A.J. Brown, Sandra Cooke -- WaterLore for the drylands: strategies for activating cultural waters in regimes of extraction / Antonia Besa, Gini Lee -- Conservation through Indigenous treaty revival: Duffin's Creek, Williams Treaties Area / Sheila Boudreau, Gary Pritchard -- Blue gold: agricultural infrastructure & climae change in the Sahel / Matthew Poot -- New models of practice -- Codesign, collaboration, and systems change: reflections on innovative cross-cultural and interdisciplinary practice centered on action in landscapes of conflict / Shelagh McCartney, Nina-Marie Lister, Jeffrey Herskovits -- Resensitizing urban waterways and their publics: ecological art in the built and unplanned environment in the work of Mare Liberum / Kendra Sullivan, Dylan Gauthier, Sunita Prasad -- A strategy-driven model for sustainable socio-environmental transformations in Chile / Flavio Schiaraffia -- Learning development by doing: the evolution of the Resilient Civic Design Collective / Lindsay Howe, Ben Mansfield -- Collaborative and strategic approaches to build urban resilience in India / Sourav Kumar Biswas, Praveen Raj, Shreya Krishnan, Manushi Ashok Jain, Balaji Balaganesan, Suriya KP, Sujhatha Arulkumar, Aditi Subramanian, Logeshwaran Subramanian, Pankti Sanganee (Sponge Collaborative).

Summary:

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice. By linking individual sites and local communities to territorial socio-ecological systems and processes, they discuss issues of urban growth and development, remote areas of extraction and production, environmental degradation and transformation, and social inequality and discrimination. While the book allows for parallel readings of such issues in multiple cultural and geographical contexts, a geographic focus is placed on Canada and other environmentally complex and sensitive northern regions. One key theme is the integration of Indigenous knowledge, experience, and storytelling throughout several of the chapters. The book draws lessons that are grounded in inclusive, contextual, and multi-scalar readings which suggest landscape-informed practices that are both socially and environmentally resilient, just, and sustainable.

ISBN:

9781954081239 paperback
1954081235 paperback

Subject:

Sustainable urban development.
Urban landscape architecture.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanisme durable.
Paysage urbain.
Écologie urbaine.
urban landscapes.
urban environments.

Added entries:

Zander, Hannes, editor, author.
McCartney, Shelagh, editor, author.
Solano, Samantha, editor, author.
Vangjeli, Sonja, editor, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322659
Call No.: 322659
Copy: 1
Status: Available