ParadoXcity Venice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENT 2
3. Author List 5
4. Introduction
5. Introduction by the President of ECLAS 8
6. The Experiment “SPECIFICS” 10
7. “SPECIFICS” as forum for interdisciplinary landscape research 12
8. The Paradoxes of Peer-Review (for Landscape Architecture) 14
9. Nightfall
10. In Fact Nature 18
11. NIGHTFALL, USA 2011, 97 min. 22
12. All of Life is Memory 24
13. Landscape at Work Some thoughts on James Benning’s film Nightfall 26
14. Nature Happened Yesterday
15. Nature versus Culture
16. Comment by Michaela Ott 30
17. Designing nature as infrastructure—a profession looking for new metaphors for its relation with nature 36
18. Walking Narratives: Interacting Between Urban Nature And Self 40
19. Nature or Culture, the Wrong Question: Freeing Landscape from its Silos 44
20. Timescapes. Non-geographical approaches to landscape 48
21. The Human Existence between Nature and Artifact 57
22. Design with Nature
23. Comment by Angelus Eisinger 65
24. Teaching Interdisciplinary Sustainability: Probing Traditional Design/Build Education 68
25. Process, Utility and Strategy; Designing with Plant Materials in an Uncertain World 74
26. Ground As A Design Material In Landscape Architecture 78
27. History And Historicism In Landscape Architecture 86
28. DESIGN AND CRITICISM OF ATMOSPHERES IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 92
29. Back to Nature in Megacities
30. Comment by Jorg Sieweke 99
31. Traumatic Urban Landscape 106
32. ParadoXcity Venice 114
33. Nature by Design 119
34. The Wilderness Downtown. The Indeterminate Nature of Johannesburg’s Mine Dumps 122
35. Who owns the Landscape?
36. The Right to Green. Practicing Spatial Justice 130
37. The Right to Landscape
38. Comment by Elke Krasny 141
39. Transgressive Urbanism Borderla nds and Urban Informality of American Cities along the Pan-American Highway 144
40. The right to commemorate and the role of la ndscape architecture—Case Utøya in Norway 150
41. Landscape , Democracy, and the Right to Landscape 154
42. RETHINKING LANDSCAPE. RETHINKING VALUE 157
43. COmmunal Landscapes at Risk
44. Comment by Elke Krasny 161
45. VITAMIN “G” A STUDY ON EGYPTIAN SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION 164
46. URBAN AGRICULTURE IN VILA NOV A DE GAIA: THE NURTURING SYMBIOSIS 170
47. MEANWHILE SPACES 175
48. THE LIFE AND (PREVENTABLE) DEATH OF THE KIBBUTZ COMMUNAL LANDSCAPE 178
49. Landscape Planning
50. Food Traditions and Landscapes — Do They Own Each Other? 187
51. Landscape, Livability and Happiness in Regional Development and Landscape Planning 192
52. NEEDS HERITAGE A MUSEUM? ON TRANSFORMATION, CONSERVATION AND PERSISTENCE IN THE UNESCO-LANDSCAPE HALLSTATT -DACHSTEIN 197
53. Make-ability 2.0 The Power and Resilience of Landscape Frameworks 202
54. UASI—Urban Agriculture Spatial Index 206
55. Green Infrastructures
56. FROM GREENBELT TO INFRABELT—LONDON’S GREEN BELT AS MODEL FOR A SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE? 211
57. Activate Urban Landscape Networks: Regional Park RheinMain—Next steps 216
58. LANDSCHAFTSZUG DESSAU— AN EMERGING COLLABORATIVE LANDSCAPE 222
59. Communicating Nature Values in Urban Green Structure Planning. Case Studies from Norway 226
60. A Multifunctional Analysis of Open Space Ownership and Use in the City of Vancouver, Canada 228
61. Best Practice Landscape Architecture
62. Fundamentals
63. Comment by Udo Weilacher 238
64. Applying the Eclas Guidance on Landscape Architecture: Reflections from Recent Experience in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region 244
65. RE-VISITING BEST PRACTICE: INVESTIGATING PLACE EXPERIENCE IN THE NEXUS OF THEORY AND DESIGN 248
66. Disseminating Landscape Architectural Specificity on the Global Stage 254
67. The fabrication of heroes in landscape architecture 257
68. Is there a Design Theory?
69. Comment by Udo Weilacher 261
70. Is There A “Design Science” in the Context of Landscape Architecture? 264
71. The Grid And The Non-Hierarchical Field: Peter Walker And Minimalist Landscape Architecture 268
72. A Drawing For Learning—Learning By Drawing 271
73. Evidence of Action: Towards an Ecology Of Objects 276
74. Teaching Time—On the practice of landscape la boratories 282
75. Landscape Architecture Heritage
76. Comment by Karsten Jørgensen 287
77. What Visions Guide Us When We Seek to Preserve and Cherish Natural and Cultural Landscapes ? 290
78. Design as Translation— Site-Specific Harbor Transformation in Europe 295
79. LX GARDENS—Lisbon’s Historic Gardens and Parks: Study and Landscape Heritage 302
80. NATURE AS DISSONANT HERITAGE 305
81. International, Local and Individual—Modern Movement and Landscape Architecture of Spas in Slovakia 312
82. The Fine art of best practice
83. Comment by Gabi Schillig 319
84. Landscape Preference: Where Do I Stand? An Exploration of Formalist and Objectivist Attitudes to Landscape 324
85. Space Turns into Place in Laborative Actions 328
86. Propositions for the Landscape Relational Space, Open Systems and Spaces of Communication 334
87. TEMPORARY LANDSCAPE AS THEATRE: SMALL EVENTS, BIG FUTURES 340
88. Landscape and Structure
89. Multidimensional Landscapes
90. ANALYZING STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS— CAN LANDSCAPE METRICS IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPE PLANNING PROCESS? 346
91. THE MEGAREGIONAL COMMON: A FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING MEGAREGIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND "OPEN" SPACE 356
92. INFRASTRUCTURETY POLOGIES IN SUBURBAN LANDSCAPES IN SWITZERLAND AND IN KOSOVO 362
93. Hybrid Tourism-Related Structures— Revisiting The Westin Bonaventure Hotel 368
94. Water and Structures
95. The waterfront landscapes and the historic harbors in the Sulcis archipelago 375
96. Collaborative Engagement For The Future Of A Water Landscape 384
97. Energy Landscapes
98. Energy-landscape nexus: Advancing a Conceptual Framework for the Design of Sustainable Energy Landscapes 391
99. Socio-Environmental Character Assessment of Landscapes in Small-Scale Hydropower Objects in Latvia 398
100. A New Assessment Methodology for Cultural Landscapes Constructed by the Energy Industry: A Case of Study in Central Spain 402
101. Reading a Historical Hydroelectric Landscape. Alta Valtellina as a Case Study 408
102. Towards A Spanish Atlas Of Cultural Landscapes Of Energy 414
103. Events and Conversion
104. Large-Scale events and their legacies
105. Comment by Joachim Thiel 422
106. Tremors at Gezi Park: Challenges in Landscape Architecture at Istanbul’s Earthquake Risk 428
107. Project for Urban Interventions 2011 BRNO’S LITTLE LOOPS (Brněnské točenky) 432
108. INTEGRATING THE SPACE OF MEGA-EVENTS ALONG WITH THE LANDSCAPE OF RANGPUR, BANGLADESH 438
109. PERCEIVED USE OF GREEN URBAN PARKS: USERS’ ASSESSMENT OF FIVE CASE STUDIES 446
110. Olympics’ Environmental Legacy: London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020: Will They Be Worthwhile? 452
111. Pecha Kucha
112. Riverside—The Senne under Brussels approached through private cellars 458
113. The Architecture of Transit: Photographing Beauty and Sublimity in Motorway Architecture from the Alps to Naples 462
114. Who Owns the Landscape: The Landscape Meat Eaters 463
115. PAUSE AND THINK ON/OVER RUINS—COLLECTIVE APPROPRIATIONS AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING 464
116. CITIES ON HOLD/ URBAN CATASTROPHE Re-thinking urban landscape in Madrid's periphery after the “construction tsunami” 465
117. ICE OR DUST— THE LATVIAN ROAD LANDSCAPE 466
118. Canarysect—Capturing Dynamics, Relationships, Atmospheres in the Water Landscapes of the Canaries 467
119. Mangfall Park—Intensified Landscape of Streams 468
120. Urbanism Studio 2013: Twenty Welfare Gardens. Can the art of gardens define the future welfare city? 469
121. LANDSCAPE CHOREOGRAPHY — From wasted Land to shared Space 470
122. Sustainability in the use of the territory and landscape in the municipality of Monchique (Algarve, Portugal) 471
123. Cidade Aracy, a neighborhood is reinventing places 472
124. Making places in 1:1: Site specificity and local transformations through temporary projects 473
125. LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE: A LANDSCAPE SPECIFIC APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION 474
126. BACK FROM PLANNING TO PLANTING: CA MAU’S NEED TO SHIFT GEARS TO RESPOND TO CLIMATE CHANGE 475
127. The Rose Square—the Center of Liepāja City 476
128. In the realm of the senses— urban space and imagination 477
129. WETLAND BIODIVERSITY PROMOTION. CASE OF STUDY : ÖSTRA DAMMEN, LOMMA, SWEDEN 478
130. Allotment gardens—the important element of natural and social performance of cities 479
131. Poster 480
132. Venue: St. Katharinen 486
133. Acknowledgement 495
134. Scientific Committee, Reviewers 496