Landscape Architecture: Design for Urban Transformation

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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