Integrating Post-Industrial Landscape Design Approaches with Climate Adaptation and Social Equity
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 8
Special Issue Editors
Interests: technology in landscape architecture; brownfield remediation; design theory
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: post-manufactuing site rehabilitation and regeneration; environmental design; technology of architecture; architectural design; sustainable design; landscape architecture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
The abandonment or underutilization of former industrial lands and their ongoing reconsideration for use as landscape sites for recovery and regeneration has resulted in a need for new modes of both applied research and design approaches. Added to this are two major directions recently identified in landscape architecture education and practice—specifically, climate adaptation and the need for social equity in the shaping of all types of landscapes internationally. This Special Issue of Land will gather a range of original essays, reviews, and commentaries on landscape case studies, interdisciplinary practices and tools, scientific and geographic data, and the advancement and integration of community organizations, with design professionals, that address a range of creative, interdisciplinary and resilient landscape design approaches. Of particular need at this time, in the landscape field, is an understanding of the integration of climate adaptation to heat islands, sea level rise, air quality, and social equity practices at a range of landscape scales from larger, resource-exhausted cities, ex-urban extraction industries, and manufacturing and waste lands, to the residues of smaller neighborhood scales with infill factories, recycling centers, printing works, waterfronts, and railway corridors. The editors are interested in receiving contributions on a wide range of countries, geographic areas, types of design approaches and lessons for advancing contemporary landscape design in step with these critical environmental and social changes.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles, case studies and review papers) to give insight about this emerging area of landscape architectural research and design practice, as well as to indicate promising future directions of this field or work. In addition, we are looking for studies discussing ways in which the landscape field can collaborate and integrate research and work with specialists in other, parallel fields of study including ecology, environmental engineering, community development, and climate studies.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- creativity in landscape design and regeneration of land;
- aligning climate scientific data with spatial solutions;
- environmental justice and landscape planning and design.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Niall Kirkwood
Dr. Luca Maria Francesco Fabris
Dr. Quanchuan ‘Cara’ Fu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- post-industrial landscape
- social equity and public space
- climate adaptation
- interdisciplinary landscape planning and design
- landscape remediation approaches
- environmental justice
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