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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163019903321

Titolo

Specifics : proceedings ECLAS Conference 2013, 22./25.09.2013 in Hamburg / / edited by Christiane Sörensen, Karoline Liedtke, Department of Landscape Architecture, HafenCity University Hamburg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Jovis, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-86859-880-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Disciplina

712.072

Soggetti

Landscape architecture

Landscape design

Landscape architecture - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Contents ; Introduction; Introduction by the President of Eclas; The Experiment "Specifics"; "Specifics" as forum for interdisciplinary landscape research; The Paradoxes of Peer-Review (for LandscapeArchitecture); Nightfall; In Fact Nature; Nightfall, Usa 2011, 97 Min; All of Life is Memory; Landscape at Work; Nature Happened Yesterday; Nature versus Culture; Comment by Michaela Ott, Berlin/Hamburg; Designing Nature as Infrastructure-a Profession Looking for New Metaphors for Its Relation with Nature; Walking Narratives: Interacting Between Urban Nature and Self

Nature or Culture, the Wrong Question: Freeing Landscape from Its SilosTimescapes. Non-Geographical Approaches to Landscape; The Human Existence Between Nature and Artifact; Design with Nature; Comment by Angelus Eisinger, Zurich; Teaching interdisciplinary sustainability: Probing traditional design/build education; Process, utility and strategy;  designing with plant materials in an uncertain world; Ground as a design material in landscape architecture; History and historicism in landscape architecture; Design and criticism of atmospheres in landscape architecture

Back to Nature in MegacitiesComment by Jorg Sieweke, Berlin/Virginia; Traumatic urban landscape; ParadoXcity Venice; Nature by design; The



Wilderness Downtown. The Indeterminate Nature of Johannesburg's Mine Dumps; Who Owns the Landscape?; The Right to Landscape; Comment by Elke Krasny, Vienna; Transgressive Urbanism. Borderlands and Urban Informality of American Cities Along the Pan-American Highway; The Right to Commemorate and The Role of Landscape Architecture- Case Utøya in Norway; Landscape, Democracy, and the Right to Landscape; Rethinking Landscape. Rethinking Value

Communal Landscapes at RiskComment by Elke Krasny, Vienna; Vitamin "G" A Study on Egyptian Sustainable Landscape Community Participation; Urban Agriculture in Vila Nova de Gaia: The Nurturing Symbiosis; Meanwhile Spaces; The Life and (Preventable) Death of the Kibbutz Communal Landscape; Landscape Planning; Food Traditions and Landscapes-Do They Own Each Other?; Landscape, Livability and Happiness in Regional Development and Landscape Planning; Needs Heritage a Museum? On Transformation, Conservation and Persistence in the Unesco-Landscape Hallstatt-Dachstein

Make-Ability 2.0 The Power and Resilience of Landscape FrameworksUASI-Urban Agriculture Spatial Index; Green Infrastructures; From Greenbelt to Infrabelt-London's Green Belt as Modell for a Sustainable Landscape?; Activate Urban Landscape Networks: Regional Park RheinMain-Next Steps; Landschaftszug Dessau-An Emerging Collaborative Landscape; Communicating Nature Values in Urban Green Structure Planning. Case Studies From Norway; A multifunctional analysis of open space ownership and use in the city of Vancouver, Canada; Best Practice Landscape Architecture; Fundamentals

Comment by Udo Weilacher, Munich

Sommario/riassunto

Landscape architecture's fundamental task is to uncover and develop the specificity of a site. SPECIFICS emphasizes the differences of qualities of a location and invites to focus and concentrate on significant strategies for research and teaching in view of recent insights and global developments. In this book, scientists, planners, landscape architects, architects, artists, engineers, officials and students from around the world present and discuss innovative approaches and future developments in thinking and designing Landscape within research, teaching, planning and construction. SPECIFICS